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During the Sino-French War of 1884, the Qing military intentionally sank a number of wrecks filled with rocks under the Tamsui River and surrounded them with naval mines and many railings to form a barrier against the French invasion. In 2014, one…

“Museums are the mirror of what can be seen in reality” In this paper, a blueprint of a maritime museum is
presented, as in what way a museum can be of underwater archaeology. The efforts are to bring together the real
time experience of how an…

The ceramic trade throughout Medieval Southeast Asia was prolific. Terrestrial sites have yielded massive amounts of ceramic material and the archaeological reports of shipwreck cargoes corroborate the versatile and extensive qualities of trade…

Diaoyutai Islands are a group of islands affiliated to Taiwan. There are many discourses on the sovereignty and legality of claim on the islands. This article firstly introduces the history of Taiwan's only ancient Chinese junk "Free China",…

The underwater archeology museum mainly deals with archaeological and historical shipwrecks and artifacts from
ancient times to modern times as old as the history of marine activities of mankind, and has been operated with
the participation and…

On the south-western coast of Korea lie 12 shipwrecks of the Goryeo Dynasty (tenth to fourteenth centuries). So
far, among recovered artifacts from shipwrecks, less attention was given to pottery, than wooden tablets. Our
research on pottery shows…

The Goryeo Dynasty (918–1392 CE) was a period when marine activities were very active centering on
Byeokrando. The Sibidongpado and Wando shipwrecks are important data that can show marine activities in the
early Goryeo Dynasty. It is…