Reclaim
A Grand Tradition
Beijing
University students in
traditional Han dress playing
sword during a gethering in the
campus
Treasure
Found Underwater
The ship was found by
accident in 1987, and since then it has been
robbed repeatedly with a large quantity of
relics believed already lost.
The 55-day underwater
operation that was concluded on Tuesday has
excavated over 10,000 pieces of antique, most
being porcelain and pottery, with some
produced in renewed porcelain capital
Jindezhen (景德镇) in Jiangxi
Province.
During the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279)
Dynasties, the
Marine Silk Road was established and the
commercial ships regularly set off from pot
cities Guangzhou (Guangdong Province),
Quanzhou (Fujian Province), Ningbo (Zhejiang
Province) and Yangzhou (Jiangsu Province) for
the countries in Persian, Red Sea and North
Africa.
