The Venetian merchants were famous, the Phoenicians were famous in ancient civilizations, good at commerce and seafaring, and the Phoenicians founded the city of Carthage on the coast of Tunisia and developed into the Carthaginian Empire, which is famous in history as a slave. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Chen Yan arrived in Tunis on August 7.

After a day in Tunis, taste the local cuisine and visit the ancient city of Carthage.

On August 8, Chen Yanshui escaped into Lake Tunisia and entered the Gulf of Tunis through the canal.

Chen Yan's demarcated search area for the city of Faya is the Gulf of Tunis, the sea area from Bizerte to the coastline of Refraf, and the sea area from Huwarier to the coastline of Gulebiye.

The Mediterranean Sea is one of the oldest seas in the world, older than the Atlantic Ocean.

The water depth in the Mediterranean Sea is very deep, with an average depth of 1450 meters.

As soon as Chen Yan escaped from the canal into the Gulf of Tunis, the depth of the water suddenly became extremely deep, and Chen Yan was 2,000 meters below the seabed.

The bottom of the sea is pitch black, the water pressure is very high, and the colorful bubbles wrap Chen Yan, and the colorful bubbles shine with colorful light, illuminating the surrounding seabed.

Chen Yan began to search the ancient city of Faya under the sea.

The Kerch people built the ancient city of Faya into an extraordinarily prosperous city, with extremely prosperous navigation, maritime trade, commerce, and handicrafts.

Chen Yan walked on the bottom of the sea, and the closed and dark environment on the bottom of the sea was extremely depressing.

The seabed is more than 2000 meters below, this depth is very deep, the salinity of the sea water in the Mediterranean Sea is very high, up to 39.5‰, therefore, the buoyancy of the Mediterranean Sea is also very large, Chen Yan walks on the bottom of the sea, can feel a lot of buoyancy to hold Chen Yan up.

The Gulf of Tunis was a very busy sea in ancient times, and the Kerch civilization had to enter and exit this sea area, and then, the Phoenician sea trade merchant ships had to enter and leave this sea area, and in modern times, this sea area is an important route from the Mediterranean Sea to the Strait of Gibraltar,......。

As a result, a large number of shipwrecks have sunk in this area.

Although the wreck has been soaked in the sea water for a long time and decayed, some of the cargo, coins, precious stones, gold, silver and other precious metals on the ship are still left in the mud of the seabed.

The bottom of the sea below 2,000 meters, a depth that can only be reached by underwater robots, is a forbidden area for ocean treasure hunters.

Only Chen Yan was able to dive to this depth easily, and the treasures of the ocean broke into Chen Yan.

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Chen Yan walked on the bottom of the sea, he demarcated many areas in the Gulf of Tunis, marked them on the navigation map, and searched the sea area by sea.

Chen Yan searched for a week at a depth of more than 2,000 meters, searching 1/3 of the Gulf of Tunis.

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Chen Yan suddenly stopped, he found something in the mud on the bottom of the sea.

It is a wreck, and a large amount of silt protects the wreck.

Chen Yan peeled off the silt covering the wreck, and suddenly densely stacked porcelain appeared in front of Chen Yan.

Due to the protection of the silt, and the fact that the ship probably sank without severe shocks, most of the porcelain on board is very well preserved.

Perhaps, in addition to porcelain, the ship was also loaded with other goods, such as silk, spices, tea, books, etc., but it was not soaked in the sea, and only porcelain, gold, silver, etc. were preserved.

Chen Yan picked up a piece of porcelain, this is a blue and white porcelain pen wash, thin glaze moist, using the overfiring method, no glaze on the edge of the mouth, compared with similar utensils in Jingdezhen, the mouth edge is thicker, the inner bottom of the pen wash is printed with peony pattern decoration, there are these obvious characteristics, basically can be identified, this pen wash is in Fu \ 1 Jianquan, 1 state kiln firing, the burning age is the Song Dynasty, export porcelain.

Chen Yan picked up another piece of porcelain, which was a blue and white bowl with lotus petal patterns on the outer wall of the bowl, which was also fired in the Quan\1 state kiln.

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It took an hour to count a small part of the porcelain in the cabin, all of which were blue and white porcelain, celadon and black porcelain produced by the Quan\1 state kiln and the porcelain kiln in southern Fujian, which were fired very exquisitely, with very exquisite ornamentation and various shapes.

For this shipwreck, Chen Yan can now roughly deduce a context in his mind.

During the Song Dynasty, the shipbuilding technology and navigation technology of the Song Dynasty were significantly improved, the compass was widely used in navigation, the long-distance navigation ability of Chinese merchant ships was greatly strengthened, and the maritime trade was extremely prosperous.

The geographical convenience of the port is very important to overseas merchants, the merchants of the northern Japanese and Korean dynasties hope that the main port of the Song Dynasty will be as far north as possible, while the Arab world and the countries of the South China Sea, which have a larger trade volume, hope that the port will be as close to the south as possible, and the combined point of the two directions will be balanced in Quan, 1 Zhou, which was located at the midpoint of the north and south coasts at that time.

In 1087, Quan\1 Prefecture officially opened its port in the establishment of the Municipal Shipping Division, and quickly surpassed Mingzhou Port (Ning\1 Wave), then equaled Guangzhou\1 Prefecture and overtook it in the late Southern Song Dynasty, becoming the largest port.

Porcelain is a commodity that is easy to break, long-distance transportation by land is not convenient, freight and loss will also affect the profit income, in the urgent need of overseas markets, the area near Quanzhou takes advantage of the superior natural conditions, local materials to fire porcelain.

In addition to the porcelain exported from the ports of Quanzhou and 1 Prefecture, most of the porcelain products from the porcelain kilns in southern Fujian near Quan\1 Prefecture are produced.

A merchant ship loaded with silk, porcelain and other goods departed from the port of Quan\1 Prefecture and followed the Maritime Silk Road all the way to Egypt on the Red Sea coast.

The cargo was reloaded in Alexandria and transported through the Mediterranean to Europe, where Arab merchant ships laden with silk and porcelain were wrecked and sunk.

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All the porcelain in Chen Yan's shipwreck was put into the bubble space, and finally the wreck was also put into the bubble space with the silt.

He spent three days in the bubble space, counting all the items, and more than 40,000 pieces of porcelain such as blue and white porcelain, celadon, and black porcelain were fired in the porcelain kilns in Quan\1 Prefecture and nearby southern Fujian.

Chen Yan found a huge treasure in a cabin, and the famous Song Wuyao porcelain in the porcelain world was found in the cabin.

After careful counting, Ru kiln porcelain, 27 pieces.

And you must know that after Jin destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, Ru kiln also died out. The kiln was only opened for 20 years, and due to the short firing time, there are not many generations.

In 2012, Sotheby's Hong Kong auctioned a 'Northern Song Ru kiln azure glazed sunflower wash', which was sold for HK$207.86 million.

Ru kiln is called "even if you have a lot of wealth, it is not as good as Ru porcelain".