Exhibition Hall Modeled on the Tomb No. 44

You’ll now enter the Daegaya Royal Tomb Pavilion. The building of this pavilion was modeled on the Tomb No. 44 in Jisan-dong. This hall was reproduced using the actual size of Dae Gaya’s royal tomb. Dae Gaya was a state that belonged to ancient confederacy, and it flourished until the mid-6th century in southeastern Korea. This state produced ample amount of iron, and enjoyed prosperous trading and high cultural development.

In this exhibition pavilion, you can experience Dae Gaya’s culture and life through many excavated artifacts. You can also see Dae Gaya’s unique tomb style.

Before you look around the exhibition pavilion, let me first tell you about the unique structure of this tomb. Generally, one corpse is buried per tomb. But there were 35 burial chambers inside the mound of the Tomb No. 44, and 22 skeletons were found inside.

Burying multiple corpses together like this is an ancient burial custom, and is called sunjang in Korean. China and Egypt also had similar burial customs. This tomb was the first to confirm Korea’s sunjang custom. We’ll talk more about it in detail later.

Now, shall we enter the giant tomb of Dae Gaya?