Authorities of the central province of Quang Ngai have handed over to the provincial museum and a salvage company nearly 5,000 antiquities retrieved from a 600-year-old sunken ship last year.
Authorities of thecentral province of Quang Ngai have handed over to the provincial museumand a salvage company nearly 5,000 antiquities retrieved from a600-year-old sunken ship last year.
The antique items in theshipwreck were discovered in the coastal area of Binh Son district'sChau Thuan Bien commune, Quang Ngai province.
Director of theprovincial Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism Nguyen Dang Vuconfirmed to Viet Nam News on January 22 that the provincial museum took33 percent of the items.
He said the antiquities were pricelesstreasures such as terracotta and porcelain jars, bowls and plates fromthe Tran dynasty, making it one of the oldest discoveries in recentyears.
"The provincial museum took 1,600 antiquities, of which 35were unique and precious objects including stone, weights and a coppermirror," said Vu.
"We will classify and file all antiquities in order before displaying them to the public soon."
Vu added that a seminar will be held this June on whether the shipwreck should be salvaged or not.
The 24-metre-long and five-metre-wide vessel, which may date back tothe 14th century, is the second ancient ship that has been discovered inthe province.
According to Doan Sung and his company Doan AnhDuong which won the bidding rights to raise the wreck, the antiquitiesare the most ancient objects retrieved from shipwrecks in Vietnam todate.
"We have searched 11 ancient sunken ships in Vietnam, butthe 600-year-old ship is the oldest one. It means that all theantiquities are precious objects," Sung said.
"We will preserve the antiquities at our own museum on Phu Quoc Island to serve tourists," he said. Sung said his company had invested 50 billion VND (2.4 million USD) inexcavating two shipwrecks in the province and on preservingantiquities.
He said a 49.7-hectare Silk Road Museum, which willbe built in Phu Quoc Island in 2015, will display antiquities retrievedfrom ancient ships in Vietnam.
"All antiquities retrieved fromcargo ships that sank in Vietnam's sea waters over the centuries arerelated to the ancient trading route, the Silk Road," he said.
Headded that the antiquities will provide clues to historic trade rout꧒es.In 1999, more than 240,000 artefac🐓ts were recovered from a sunken Thaiship near Cham Island, off the coast of Hoi An.-VNA
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