World Heritage Site: Hwangnamdaechong in Gyeongju

 In the 1970s, the Gyeongju Red Excavation Survey Team of the Cultural Heritage Research Institute of the Cultural Heritage Administration created a comprehensive Gyeongju tourism development plan to make Gyeongju an international cultural tourism city. In the basic plan of this comprehensive development, a plan was prepared to excavate and investigate Tomb No. 98, the largest tomb in Gyeongju, and restore the interior to be disclosed based on the results.  Three private houses were standing in the southern part of Hwangnamdaechong, and the burial mound was surrounded by rice paddies and water parsley fields, and there was a winding lane above the burial mound, which was used as a shortcut to the city. The tomb is the largest burial mound in Silla, measuring 80m in diameter from east to west, 120m in diameter from north to south, 23m in height from south, and 22m in height from north to south. It was revealed that the southern part was built first and the northern part was built one after another due to the inter-Korean connection of the outer hoseok built around the base of the Bongto and Bongto.    The excavation of Jeokseokbu is a unique Jeokseokmokgwak in Kosilla, where wooden and red stones are installed in the center of the Bongto, and both tombs were found inside the Jeokseokbu, indicating that wooden tools were installed first and stones were stacked accordingly.    Inside the Jeokseokbuan of the southern part of the remains, the main building with the long axis in the east-west direction and the main building with the long axis in the north-south direction were installed in a T-shape. The coffin of the tomb consists of a double crown inside and outside, and fine gravel was filled between the inside and outside, and ornaments were identified inside the coffin.   The Jeokseokbu in the north was built by cutting part of the northern peak of the south, and a wooden wall in the east-west direction of the long axis is installed in the middle of the Jeokseokbu. Inside the wooden wall, a flat "C"-shaped stone platform stacked with fine gravel on the other three sides except the east is surrounded, and a wooden coffin is placed therein. The wooden coffin is the same double crown as the other.    More than 57,000 artifacts, including ornaments, weapons, ironware, and earthenware, were excavated throughout the north-south tombs. Among them, it is noted that a set of harnesses excavated from the southern part of the tomb is decorated with silkworm wings under the gilt-bronze plate with dragon patterns. In addition, glass products are presumed to have been handed down through the Silk Road through the Roman Glass system, where Yeonlimun, not ancient Chinese, suggesting ancient trade relations.  Exposure of earthenware and accessories in the wooden coffin, while the southern part is presumed to be a man's tomb because a large number of weapons and harnesses are excavated, and the northern part is recognized as a woman's tomb. Therefore, it can be seen that this Hwangnam Daechong is the tomb of a couple buried together.    The burial site of the coffin, which drew keen attention when excavating various bead tombs exposed to the interior of the lacquerware painting, drew people's attention as both the north and south ministries were excavated as expected, while the gold crown was buried in the north, a man's tomb. In response, some scholars believe that the gold crown was excavated only in the north, the tomb of the queen, after seeing the main character of the south as King Naemul, because the North Korean prince was the eldest daughter of King Michu and was higher than King Naemul.   Thus, he also suggested an interesting view that the gold crown was not worn by the king, but by the queen, and that it was in accordance with the hereditary tradition of Siberian shaman leading to Yeo Gye.  Gold crowns of gold earrings, gold crowns, and gold crowns of Hwangnamdaechong were excavated and repaired by a Korean scholar's hand, and were first exposed on October 29, 1974, which took four days to recover. However, during these four days, the sky was colored red like an evening sunset, and when the gold crown was completely recovered and moved safely, he returned to the usual sky.    The Hwangnamdaechong excavation survey, which was exposed to bead necklaces, provided absolute and indispensable archaeological data to understand the construction method of Silla tombs, as well as the largest excavation of gold crowns, glassware, and earthenware.   ======================================= It is absurd that even though this amount of relics came out, it is called """ used only in the ancestral rites. Even if it is not known exactly whose grave it is, if it is a royal grave, I think it should be referred to as a natural grave.