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Kitora tomb
キトラ
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○○○ pick out ⪢⪢
Some of which have stars picked out in golden leave as if to indicate that they're more important than the other stars around them.
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○○○ prefecture ⪢⪢
Close to the village of Asuka in the Nara prefecture of Japan, you'll find the ancient Kitora tomb a sacred place with a very strange set of decorations on its ceiling.
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○○○ would ⪢⪢
Why then does the map on the ceiling show the position of the stars as they would have appeared around four hundred years earlier than that.
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○○○ would ⪢⪢
This is how the night sky would have appeared from China not Japan.
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