Japan's possibly oldest molds for bronze relics found at Saga ruins

Relics including stone casting molds for bronze artifacts, potentially the oldest of their kind in Japan, have been discovered at an archaeological site in the western prefecture of Saga, the prefectural government said Monday.One of the molds could date back to around 200 BC, according to the local government. The discoveries between September and October at the Yoshinogari ruins followed the finding in April of a stone coffin tomb believed to have belonged to a person of high status in an area of the site.The enigmatic coffin prompted experts and archaeology buffs to wonder whose burial s…READ FULL ARTICLE