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Echoes of Rome in ancient China? What Beijing’s 1,800-year-old ship find reveals

· By Eve Qiao
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Three ancient wooden boats unearthed in Beijing and dating back about 1,800 years offer new evidence of shipbuilding technology and cultural exchanges between ancient China and the rest of the world, according to researchers. The researchers unveiled details of “the first physical evidence of ancient inland water tr…

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