Chen Wenzhe is still very interested in man-made shipwrecks.
However, Chen Wenzhe is not very interested in the large-scale shipwreck areas caused by the war, because too many people know about such places.
However, this kind of area still provided him with another clue for treasure hunting.
He had also tracked several neon battleships from the late World War II before. You know, those were treasure ships.
Unfortunately, Gao Qijing found many treasure hiding spots based on the clues he provided, but there was no trace of the four treasure ships.
Now that I think about it, those four treasure ships probably disappeared into the ocean, and I don’t know where they sank!
Compared with the Japanese Tomb in Truk Lagoon, Chen Wenzhe still prefers this kind of shipwreck cemetery.
However, if you want to find it, I'm afraid you have to study the history of the Second Generation War.
Gao Qijing may have been lucky this time. The porcelain he found was real and fake, and they were all of different kinds.
The most important thing is that there are treasures from shipwrecks of the Ming Dynasty and treasures of the Qing Dynasty.
If these are all found in the same place, then what was discovered this time may not be a simple sunken ship.
In fact, this kind of clear sea cannot be said to be everywhere in the ocean, but it is not uncommon.
The ocean is magical, it can be said that anything can happen.
People who like to read tomb-robbery novels will often see many strange tombs in them, either built underground in caves or sunk to the bottom of the sea.
There are many large tombs in history, and they were actually built in very remote locations.
So do undersea tombs really exist? In fact, they do exist in existing archeology, but most of them are shipwreck tombs, which are different from those in novels.
Undersea tombs exist, but this kind of mausoleum will not be like an undersea palace.
Of course, they will not have many exquisite funerary objects, and they will definitely not carefully design many mechanisms to prevent tomb robbers.
Because being stored on the seabed means absolute safety. At least in ancient times, it was absolutely safe.
The undersea tombs discovered in modern archeology are generally shipwreck tombs, that is, many merchant ships sank during shipping.
The largest underwater tomb that has been salvaged so far is "Nanhai No. 1".
It has been sealed in dust at the bottom of the sea for eight hundred years without decay, which is very rare.
As a merchant ship on the Maritime Silk Road, the value of porcelain products and various types of transported goods is as high as 300 billion US dollars.
It can be said that it is a very large amount of archaeological work. It took more than 30 years to salvage the Nanhai No. 1 completely.
Finally, a special museum was set up to display the cultural relics from Nanhai No. 1.
In addition, after the Nanhai No. 1 submarine tomb was salvaged, many shipwreck tombs have also been unearthed.
For example, Huaguang Reef No. 1 was salvaged for only one year.
Therefore, it is really rare to be able to compare with Nanhai Tomb No. 1.
Its archaeological value is even comparable to that of the Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses.
More than 180,000 pieces of fine cultural relics were unearthed, which made major historical breakthroughs for the entire Southeast Asia, as well as the history of ceramics and shipping.
And this is just Nanhai No. 1. Since there is Nanhai No. 1, there must be Nanhai No. 2 and Nanhai No. 3!
Let’s talk about the Nanhai No. 2 sunken ship. It must have been named because of the previous discovery of the Nanhai No. 1 sunken ship.
Nanhai No. 1 was a ship that transported porcelain through the Maritime Silk Road in the early Southern Song Dynasty.
Unfortunately, it crashed and sank during transportation. Now it has been discovered and salvaged by us.
But there is actually a sunken ship near it, called Nanhai No. 2.
So what exactly is in this Nanhai No. 2?
On June 1, 2006, archaeologists conducted underwater surveys and confirmed the existence of "Nanhai 2".
It is nearly 18 meters long and sank around the Wanli period of the late Ming Dynasty.
There were many porcelains scattered on the ship and on the nearby seabed. It was said that there were tens of thousands of them. It might be a ship specially used to transport porcelain.
In fact, "Nanhai 2" was discovered as early as May 2006.
On the morning of May 25, the Toushan Border Defense Detachment Police Station received a call from the masses and seized 21 pieces of ancient porcelain that had just been salvaged from two fishing boats in the waters of the Nanpeng Islands near Nan'ao.
After questioning, I learned that it was fishermen who discovered the existence of the sunken ship while they were working underwater.
So archaeologists came to South Australia to investigate and study the sunken ship.
The existence of the ship was eventually determined, and the artifacts on it were investigated and studied.
Those porcelains and cultural relics are very exquisite, showing the superb porcelain culture and shipbuilding skills of the Wanli period in the late Ming Dynasty.
These discoveries will certainly be of great significance to archaeologists studying the history of the late Ming Dynasty.
Although Nanhai No. 2 is not as big as Nanhai No. 1, it still has special significance due to the difference in age and cultural relics.
Nanhai No. 1 is different. Nanhai No. 1 was a ship that sank in the early Southern Song Dynasty.
Discovered in the waters of Yangjiang in 1987, it was the first shipwreck site discovered in my country.
It is very huge, with a length of 41.8 meters and a height of 4 meters. A total of more than 180,000 cultural relics were unearthed in it, which is of great significance.
And near the wrecks of Nanhai No. 1 and No. 2, there is a dangerous sea area.
This place was on the Silk Road in the ancient Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, so as long as the weather is bad, merchant ships passing through this sea area may sink.
Due to the huge number of ancient shipwrecks and the vastness of the South China Sea, the locations of many sunken ships are temporarily difficult to determine.
Therefore, it is estimated that the number of sunken ships in the South my country Sea is no less than 2,000.
Some experts also say that this number is just the tip of the iceberg of shipwrecks in this area.
Because as early as the last century, someone discovered shipwrecks in the South China Sea.
At that time, there was a British professional treasure hunter named Mike Hatcher. He specialized in salvaging underwater sunken ships and selling them for money. He was the natural enemy of underwater archaeology in many countries.
Later, he salvaged a Chinese sunken ship, and the porcelain on the sunken ship made him a fortune.
So he turned his attention to more sunken ships, which also made the country furious.
Later, when the Nanhai No. 1 sunken ship was discovered, archaeologists did not dare to publicize it, and the original salvage plan was overturned again and again.
At first, archaeologists only salvaged some porcelain scattered on the surrounding seabed.
Later, archaeologists spent a long time and spent a lot of money to salvage the entire ship.
At that time, the porcelain produced there belonged to the three dynasties of Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasty. This kind of situation is rare, but it is reasonable to exist.
Because the porcelain salvaged from the water over there cannot be from the same ship.
Therefore, there is more than just "Nanhai No. 2" near Nan'ao Island.