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Filming Reveals Gold Leaf Use at Kitora tomb

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20011208b1.htm

From the Japan Times, gold leaf was used in drawing Japan's oldest existing astronomical charts covering the ceiling of an ancient tomb in the village of Asuka, Nara Prefecture.

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