In order to salvage ancient sunken ships, China has spent hundreds of millions in 20 years and produced cultural relics worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
Everyone is familiar with the word archaeology! Now it is almost easy to see these two words on mobile phones, but archaeology is actually classified. Archaeology is divided into two types: terrestrial archaeology and underwater archaeology. Today we are talking about the excavations in underwater archaeology. of a ship.
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As we all know, the ancient sea transportation was very developed, even more developed than land transportation, and the capacity of the ship was naturally very large. Since the capacity is large, there will naturally be more things on it. To what extent? The name of the ship we are going to talk about today is "Nanjing No. 1". All the artifacts on this ship amaze even experienced archaeologists. The ancient relics on this ship are more than ten times that of ordinary tombs.
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In fact, this ship was first discovered in 1987. After the discovery, archaeologists did not excavate it, but chose to seal it directly. Why?
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It turned out that China's underwater archaeology technology was too backward at that time, and there was almost no experience and cases of underwater archaeology. Although the archaeologists fell into trouble at that time, there was no technology, so the archaeologists decided to start the research on underwater archaeology immediately. Finally, 20 years later, the archaeologists finally had a method for underwater archaeology, so they Immediately decided to excavate the South China Sea No. 1.
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In December 2007, Nanhai No. 1, which had been sleeping under the deep sea for more than 840 years, was put into a special caisson with a special machine, and then salvaged by a special crane ship. The roar sounded, and this ancient transport ship also saw the light of day again. Even the shipping box, which had a total of more than 4,000 tons, was picked up effortlessly.
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This salvage is unprecedented in the archaeological history of the world, and even many foreigners have praised: This is really a miracle. As a Chinese, I can't help but feel proud. You must know that the Chinese are the only ones in the world who can create miracles, because the culture of 5,000 years is not fun. In order to salvage the ship, archaeologists spent decades and spent hundreds of millions of dollars. It took so long and the cost was so high, but it was not a loss at all, because the value of the cultural relics found on the ship exceeded Hundreds of billions of dollars, of which there are more than 150 pieces of gold products, and each piece is very heavy. There are also more than 120 silver products.
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In fact, these are nothing, because a total of more than 60,000 pieces of porcelain were found on the ship.
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Everyone knows it! What is China most famous for? It's porcelain. And this ship came from the Song Dynasty, when the porcelain making technology was very developed. Jingdezhen was the most famous porcelain firing center in China at that time. On this ship, more than 60,000 pieces of Song Dynasty porcelain were discovered at once. Treasure!
Now in the South China Sea, there are more than 2,000 sunken ships, and the South China Sea No. 1 is only one of the many sunken ships. With so many artifacts, how many artifacts are there in so many other ships? It is really very exciting and looking forward to it. I hope that China's underwater archaeological technology can be more developed, so that these treasures under the idiom can be seen again as soon as possible.