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China DailyA mechanical claw deftly picks up samples of underwater artifacts during an archaeological expedition in the South China Sea. In the waters 150 kilometers southeast of Sanya, South China's Hainan province, lie two ancient shipwrecks enveloped in a shroud of mystery, resting beneath 1,500 meters of deep blue sea. The shipwrecks, discovered in October 2022 and traced back to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, have been named by researchers as "Northwest Continental Slope No 1 and No 2 Shipwrecks in the South China Sea". "This discovery not only stands as a major achievement in deep-sea archaeology within China, but it also holds global significance as a world-class archaeological find," he added. "These artifacts are pioneering archaeological findings, serving as witnesses to the trade interactions along the ancient Maritime Silk Road in China.
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