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DNA Study Reveals Relationships in South Korean Three Kingdoms–Era Graves
Archaeology Magazine ^ | April 10, 2026 | editors / unattributed

Posted on 04/14/2026 3:18:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

According to a report in The Korea Herald, Jeong Choong-won of Seoul National University and an international team of researchers conducted a genetic study of 78 individuals buried in 44 tombs in South Korea's Imdang-Joyeong burial complex, which was in use during the Three Kingdoms period between the fourth and sixth centuries A.D. The scientists detected evidence of close-kin marriages and family-based sacrificial burials among the occupants of the burials. Most of the tombs in the complex consist of a main burial chamber and a secondary chamber. In at least 20 of the main chambers, the researchers found evidence of sunjang, the practice of interring sacrificed individuals with an elite deceased person. At least three of these tombs contained the remains of closely related, local individuals who had been sacrificed, including one tomb that contained the remains of both parents and their child. "Genetic relatedness among sacrificial individuals over generations may suggest the presence of families that served as sacrificial individuals for the grave owner class for consecutive generations," the researchers explained. Close-kin marriage, within six degrees of kingship, was identified in both the grave owners and the sacrificed individuals. The practice of sunjang was eventually abolished in A.D. 502 during the reign of King Jijeung of the Silla Kingdom. Read the original scholarly article about this research in Science Advances. To read about fifth-century a.d. gilt-bronze shoes found in a Korean tomb, go to "Fancy Footwear."

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: genealogy; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; korea; middleages; sillakingdom; threekingdoms

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Excavation of a tomb in the Joyeong burial complex, Gyeongsan, South Korea
Gyeongsan City
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1 posted on 04/14/2026 3:19:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 04/14/2026 3:19:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is just a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Maybe they laugh at old King Jijeung of Silla in the afterlife because he doesn’t have an eternal slave.


3 posted on 04/14/2026 3:42:37 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: SunkenCiv

When I was in Mongolia, the story I got was that it was easy for them to immigrate to South Korea and mix in because they looked a lot like the South Koreans. Anyway, that was their story.


4 posted on 04/14/2026 3:49:17 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Sawdring

Hey, we tried to tell him.


5 posted on 04/14/2026 3:52:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is just a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

“Turkish and Korean are traditionally grouped under the Altaic language family, a classification that includes Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages, and often extends to Koreanic and Japonic families as “Macro-Altaic” or the Transeurasian superfamily.”

https://search.brave.com/search?q=language+group+turkish+korean&summary=1


6 posted on 04/14/2026 3:53:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is just a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: Sawdring

Of course they laugh

He is rinsing his own streaks out of his undies in the stream.


7 posted on 04/14/2026 4:01:57 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminisheRs the human spirit.)
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