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Echoes of Rome in Ancient China? What Beijing’s 1,800-Year-Old Ship Find Reveals

Researchers unveil details of ‘the first physical evidence of ancient inland water transport’ in the Chinese capital.

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Chinese archeologists discovered three wooden boats, about 1800 years old, buried seven metres deep beneath an ancient river in the Vingtai area of Beijing, in a discovery highlighting the evolution of the ship industry and river transport in ancient China.

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Three ancient state ships discovered in Beijing reveal an unexpected secret: they were built with naval techniques of the Roman Empire. This is what is behind the discovery that changes the history of trade between East and West. The article Ships with technology of ancient Rome discovered in Beijing: the discovery of 1,800 years ago that rewrites the history of trade between empires comes from Economic Scenarios.

Archaeologists of the Beijing Municipal Institute of Archaeology (China) raised three wooden boats of the Han and Jin eras from the bottom of the ancient bed of the Yundin River.

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Three ancient boats buried underground for 1,800 years have been discovered in Beijing. Archaeologists have identified the vessels as ...

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