Royal Coffin Hall of King Muryeong and His Queen

What you are looking at now is a miniature of the historic site found at the top of Jeongji Mountain. From here, you can see the panoramic view of Gongju and the entire east mountain fortresses of Baekje. A plate holder and potteries excavated from this site are exhibited along with this model.

According to the inscription on the tomb steles found in the Royal Tomb of King Muryeong, King Muryeong and his Queen were each enshrined 27 months after their deaths. However, until recently, nobody knew where the King and Queen had been enshrined before they were transferred to their final resting place.

In 1996, during the construction of a road, a roof tile engraved with the same lotus pattern that was found at the Royal Tomb of King Muryeong was found on a nearby mountain. Additional artifacts that were unique to Baekje royal sites were subsequently unearthed in the area.

Eventually, a freezer that was used to store ice was found and it confirmed the suspicions of historians. It had been a long tradition, even since ancient times, for ice to be used to lessen the odor of decaying corpses.

The artifacts discovered at the site were like the pieces of the puzzle that eventually led to historians confirming that Jeongji Mountain was indeed the place where the bodies of King Muryeong and his Queen had each been preserved for 27 months.