Currently browsing posts found in November2008
Chinese Shipwrecks Yield Treasures and a Dispute:
Number of Comments » 0Emory Kristof could not believe his eyes. Crammed into a nondescript house in suburban Los Angeles were 10,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain and pottery, some 2,000 years old, so densely packed that any movement threatened to send them crashing to the floor. Some were encrusted with coral, evidence of their hidden life for centuries under […]