Early BaekJae Dynasty Tomb in Seoul

Seoul has very long history.
It had been a Capital from more than 2000 years ago.
There are kings' tombs near my village.
The name of the village where are tombs is Seok Chon Dong. 石村洞 It means Stone Village.
It was estimated the stone tomb had been built in this area 3-4 century AD. Of course before the stone tomb, it was believed that ordinary graves had been made for long time ago.

I visited the tombs due to hot weather. At first I planned to walk along the Seoul Wall. It was too hot to walk along the wall. So I changed my plan to look around the early Baek Jae Dynasty Tombs. Bae Jae Dynasty came from Kogooryeo Dynasty. Two dynasty were actually brother kingdom. Kogooryeo dinasty was the orgin of Korea. The name of Korea came from Kogooryeo.

In acient times, there were three kingdom in Korean peninsular, Kogooryeo, BaekJae and Shilla. Among them Kogooryeo and BaekJae orginnated from one royal family.

BaekJae had built a kingdom near Seoul at first. But with several wars BaekJae was forced to withdraw from Han river area(seoul) to the Gong Joo and BooYeo(Keum river area in Choongcheong province)

The place where I visited was believed early BaekJae Dynasty's Capital. There are lots of other Archaeological remains in Seoul. Next time I will post about them.

Let's look around today's tombs.
The tombs are located in the center of the village, so tombs are surrounded by apartments and skyscrapers.