Yoshinogari

Located in north central Kyushu (in Saga Prefecture) about halfway between Nagasaki and Fukuoka is the third century BC town of Yoshinogari, discovered by contractors surveying for a housing development in 1986. It is reported to be one of the oldest cities surrounded by a moat and includes hundreds of burial pots containing decapitated and arrow-pierced skeletons. It was allegedly tied to the Chinese mainland, and interestingly it is mentioned in the sixth century Chinese chronicle "Account of the Wa People."