Shipwreck

Ceramics Found on Shipwreck Upend Singapore’s Origin Story

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Singapore’s past just got a lot busier than the “sleepy fishing village” origin story suggests. A newly analyzed 14th-century shipwreck off its coast has yielded 3.9 tons of Chinese ceramics, offering the strongest maritime evidence yet that the island was a serious trading center centuries before the British arrived, per Phys.org. The so-called Temasek … Read more

Sparking a colorful commercial revolution

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Some Chinese objects found in a shipwreck came from a Changsha kiln that produced objects made from the region’s reddish clay during a time when pure-hued porcelain was most revered, report Yang Feiyue and He Chun in Changsha. For over a millennium, the hull of the Arab merchant ship Batu Hitam lay silent on the … Read more