Tomb of King Muryeong - 3 Apr 05

The brochure showed that we actually got to enter the tomb; quite misleading. There is an underground museum at the base of the hill with all the tombs that has a replica of the tombs. One of the replicas had an entrance so low I had to crawl on my knees to get in; if it's just a replica, make a door a human can walk through. It was to dark in the musem to take pictures or video. Iwalked up the hill, but all the tomb entrances have a locked brass door on them. They recovered the King's and Queen's graves intact and a bunch of artifacts, most of the artifacts are at the Gonju National Musem. The most notable is that they both wore Christmas Ornament decorations on the sides of their funny hats; sticking up in the air like big folded back ears -- and you thought Mickey was original. They also have a stone pig-like creature that guards the entrance to the tombs, he failed so they moved him to the musem.