Japan’s ancient funerary haniwa statues tended to be large, but a recent find is overshadowing others, not only for its giant size, but also because it’s a rare wooden specimen.
The remains of a 3.5-meter-tall wooden haniwa statue were found Thursday at one of the ancient kofun burial mounds making up the Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group,
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Scientists have mapped the alignments of hundreds of ancient Japanese keyhole-shaped Kofun burials, only to discover that all of them face towards the rising sun.