The World Heritage Committee decided to inscribe a group of ancient tombs in Osaka Prefecture to UNESCO's World Cultural Heritage List at its meeting in Baku on Saturday.
Collectively called the Mozu-Furuichi tumulus clusters, the group of burial mounds, or kofun in Japanese, was built from the late fourth to the late fifth centuries -- during the height of the Kofun period (ca 300-ca 710) -- on the southern Osaka Plain, which was a political hub at the time.
It is Japan's 19th site to be added to the World Cultural Heritage List and the 23rd overall.
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