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The Belitung Shipwreck: Where Tang China Met Abbasid Baghdad
In 1998, fishermen off the coast of Indonesia pulled up a ninth-century Arab dhow loaded with sixty thousand Tang dynasty ceramics and gold. The Belitung shipwreck is the oldest seagoing vessel ever found in Southeast Asian waters, and it rewrote what we know about the maritime Silk Road. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack the ship's cargo—from Changsha bowls to a gold cup inscribed with a Chinese poem—and trace its likely voyage from Guangzhou or Siraf through the Java Sea. They discuss the monsoon winds that made the journey possible, the Abbasid and Tang empires that financed it…
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