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Changsha bowls from Belitung, Photo by Michael Flecker

Belitung Shipwreck

Ninth century CE Arab dhow shipwreck off the coast of Indonesia, commercially salvaged in 1998 and criticized by Western academics after a proposed exhibition of the shipwreck by the Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery in 2011.

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Hoi An Shipwreck

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