A 'museum without walls'
The Korean city of Gyeongju is renowned for the well-preserved history that permeates it. These rolling landforms are all exhibits in themselves—they're not natural hills but built-up burial mounds called tumuli. Each tumulus hosts the remains of royalty from the ancient Silla kingdom that ruled much of the Korean peninsula for about a millennium, from 57 BCE to 935 CE. Almost two dozen of these tombs make up the Daereungwon complex nestled within modern Gyeongju.
The Korean city of Gyeongju is renowned for the well-preserved history that permeates it. These rolling landforms are all exhibits in themselves—they're not natural hills but built-up burial mounds called tumuli. Each tumulus hosts the remains of royalty from the ancient Silla kingdom that ruled much of the Korean peninsula for about a millennium, from 57 BCE to 935 CE. Almost two dozen of these tombs make up the Daereungwon complex nestled within modern Gyeongju.
These rolling hills are actually man-made mounds, built as tombs for ancient royalty.
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