Qualla: Hội An wreck https://qualla.com/hoi-an-wreck en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/v/5/hoi-an-wreck-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Hội An wreck https://qualla.com/hoi-an-wreck Hội An wreck: Introduction https://qualla.com/hoi-an-wreck/ Photo credit Numisantica, CC BY-SA 4.0. Two dealers were arrested at Da Nang International Airport in the early 1990s carrying suitcases full of pottery. The pieces were unusual — Vietnamese ceramics of exceptional quality, not the export ware flooding markets at the time but something finer, with a glaze and a finish that suggested a different origin. The authorities traced the pieces to a ship on the seafloor 22 nautical miles offshore, lying in 70 meters of water. It had been there since the mid-to-late 15th century. By the time anyone with the means to excavate properly arrived, the site had already been worked over by looters dragging hook-and-net rigs across the wreck to pull pottery from the mud.

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/v/5/hoi-an-wreck-wp/w6v5-h-i-an-wreck-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hội An wreck: Cargo from the Kilns of the Red River Delta https://qualla.com/hoi-an-wreck/ Photo credit Numisantica, CC BY-SA 4.0. The ship had been loaded at the kilns of the Red River Delta — workshops around Chu Dau and nearby centers that supplied the export trade during Vietnam's Lê dynasty. Vietnamese ceramics from this period were among the finest produced anywhere in Asia, competing with Chinese ware...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/v/5/hoi-an-wreck-wp/w6v5-h-i-an-wreck-cargo-from-the-kilns-of-the-red-river-delta.mp3 0:06 2 full Hội An wreck: Plunder and the Race Against Time https://qualla.com/hoi-an-wreck/ Photo credit Daderot, CC0. The looters who found the wreck before the archaeologists used crude but effective methods. Weighted hooks dragged across the seabed with nets behind them dislodged artifacts and swept them up. The pieces that emerged — bowls, jars, ewers with intricate openwork panels — began ap...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/v/5/hoi-an-wreck-wp/w6v5-h-i-an-wreck-plunder-and-the-race-against-time.mp3 0:06 3 full Hội An wreck: A Third of a Million Pieces https://qualla.com/hoi-an-wreck/ Photo credit Daderot, Public domain. Over three field seasons, the team recovered nearly 300,000 artifacts — or, in the project's own accounting, a third of a million pieces of pottery. Most were everyday tableware: repetitive forms with practical rather than artistic intent, the mass production of a 15th-century ex...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/v/5/hoi-an-wreck-wp/w6v5-h-i-an-wreck-a-third-of-a-million-pieces.mp3 0:06 4 full Hội An wreck: What the Wreck Revealed https://qualla.com/hoi-an-wreck/ Photo credit Hoangkid, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Hội An wreck is known formally as the Cu Lao Cham wreck, a name that anchors it to the islands that Hội An's maritime culture had always depended on. It is dated to the mid-to-late 1400s — a period when Vietnamese ceramic production was at or near its peak, and when Hội An wa...

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