Deep beneath the South China Sea an ancient treasure lay hidden for eight centuries. A 12th century Chinese merchant ship laden with riches from the ancient Maritime Silk Road rested in the mud until 1987 when a team searching for another wreck stumbled upon it by chance. They uncovered the Nanhai No 1 from the Southern Song Dynasty with a wooden hull nearly intact and over 180000 artifacts including porcelain, gold, silver and copper. In 2007 engineers lifted the entire ship to a custom museum

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