🇹🇷 Turkey · Tumulus
Kızılbel Tomb
Persian period (c.525 BCE; chamber c.525–500 BCE) · Persian-period Lycian (Elmalı dynasty under Achaemenid satrapy)
Persian-period painted chamber tomb (525 BCE) with 2.5 m banquet frieze under tumulus at Elmalı.
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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tumulus
Persian period (c.525 BCE; chamber c.525–500 BCE) · Persian-period Lycian (Elmalı dynasty under Achaemenid satrapy)
Persian-period painted chamber tomb (525 BCE) with 2.5 m banquet frieze under tumulus at Elmalı.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Asuka (c.700 CE, late 7th c.) · Asuka court (Korean painter?)
Asuka tomb discovered 1972 by farmer, excavated 1972–74, mural of women in court dress, Tang-style.
🇰🇵 North Korea · Tumulus
Goguryeo (5th c. CE c. 440 CE) · Goguryeo (Three Kingdoms)
Pyongyang Susan-ri excavated 1950s, murals of Goguryeo hunters, UNESCO 2004 Goguryeo Tombs.