Woven basket finding unravels ancient wooden box mystery
By YUYA TANAKA/ Staff Writer
June 22, 2017 at 18:20 JST
KASHIHARA, Nara Prefecture--A mystery that long puzzled archaeologists may have been solved with the first discovery of a finely woven basket complete with a square wooden footed stand, believed to be from the late second century.
The find at the Seta archeological site here, announced by the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties on June 21, is expected to end speculation over the purpose of a box-like object that had been excavated around Japan.
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