Shipwreck Treasure up for Auction

[wreckdiver1715]

Jakarta, Dec 19: Indonesia is putting as many as 250,000 treasures up for auction that were salvaged from a 10th-century shipwreck off the island of Java.

Rubies and sapphires, glass ornaments with Arabic inscriptions, and ceramics from China's Five Dynasties period may fetch as much as USD 40 million, the government estimates. Rarest of all may be the first certificates of authentication to be issued by Indonesia, which started cracking down on modern-day pirates looting its wreck-rich waters in 2000.

Historians and archaeologists are demanding that the government preserve the wreck's contents, along with remains of the Arabian-style dhow in which they were discovered, as a single collection for future study.

"If this goes to private auction, it can fetch maybe $50,000," Peter Schwarz, 49, a ceramics specialist from Bad Königshofen, Germany, said of a pale green covered bowl with two ducks carved on the lid. "But the collection must stay together. In this room, we have history."

 

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[Peg Leg]

Finally the truth starts to come out.
It appears that people are not interested in how or what people consumed in the past but what people are going to eat RIGHT NOW TODAY!
This part of the world could care less about what happened last year much less what happened hundreds of years ago. There are however a select few around the world that appear to be concerned but of course these select few are not worried about where their next meal is going to come from.
I have a cousin that just retired from the U.S. State Department and was stationed at the American Embassy and SHE KNOWS the peole there both High and Low income and she told me that this country could care less about HISTORY outside their own country and even then there is not much concern. They are to busy trying to survive from day to day.
We talked about Indonesia QUITE A LOT.
PEG LEG