'The giraffes that sailed to medieval China' https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/wild-things/giraffes-sailed-medieval-china … (pic=https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/museum/exhibits/China_exhibit/giraffe.htm …)pic.twitter.com/V3uFOjZWMf
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A fascinating medieval lion figurine poss made from Chinese money & excavated at Shanga, East Africa, see further https://afriques.revues.org/1752?lang=en :)pic.twitter.com/nW3TCfcwsS
Some Kilwa coins from medieval East Africa found on a N. Australian island: https://www.academia.edu/6730654/AUSTRALIAN_GEOGRAPHIC_SOCIETY_EXPEDITION … & https://www.academia.edu/4213076/The_Lost_Wood._African_Seamasters_across_the_Indian_Ocean …pic.twitter.com/7QQ0EQN19x
Worth noting that some Chinese qingbai ware also found its way to 13thC Italy too, see http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-769-1/dissemination/pdf/vol16/16_063_078.pdf …
Incidentally, be interested in hearing of any medieval Chinese coins from continental Europe... There is a little porcelain & some Chinese silk (such as this bright red silk cover from the medieval skull reliquary of King Eric IX of Sweden: http://www.glossa.fi/mirator/pdf/i-2015/themedievalskullrelic.pdf …), but no coins?pic.twitter.com/LTlHYjJlIR
Two Chinese pottery sherds found at the Unguka Ukuu site on Zanzibar Island, pre-AD 700? http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:164832 …pic.twitter.com/lm6JnzFLxV
Good to see the evidence is geographically scattered far & wide.
Absolutely :)
Not Unguja Ukuu in Zanzibar?
Definite Chinese wares from that site, incl some poss 7thC, but not sure any qingbai, looking at report...?
Thanks! No just curious. Live in Zanzibar and visited the site 2 weeks ago. Much more could be done there I think. TD
Ah! Yes, a fascinating site, though only one of a number there that you have! :)
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