Ishibutai Kofun
How did seventh-century builders drag some thirty granite blocks three kilometres from a mountainside and set a 77-tonne ceiling stone almost five metres in the air with nothing but timber, rope, and muscle — and why was the earth mound that hid all of it stripped away?
early 7th century CE (Asuka period) · Asuka, Nara Prefecture, JapanAdded September 2026