China continues to salvage relics from ancient shipwreck
- Source: Global Times
- [03:40 April 26 2011]
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An archaeological salvage team has restarted to recover cultural relics from the wreckage of an ancient merchant ship that sank near the coast of modern-day Guangdong Province hundreds of years ago.
The team plans to complete the salvage of all the relics from the wreckage, known as Nan'ao-1, in 75 days. The retrieval of the shipwreck is not included in this year's task, officials in charge of the salvage said.
A large number of porcelain dishwares with exquisite graphic paintings have been found in previous archaeological surveys conducted in the shipwreck. Thousands of them were retrieved from the wreck last year.
The Nan'ao-1 was believed to be en route to southeast Asia from Zhangzhou in southeastern Fujian Province before it sank off the modern-day city of Shantou during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
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