The Lost Dhow: A Discovery from the Maritime Silk Route Paperback – January 27, 2015

I read in the recent DIVER (Canadian) magazine an article on a wreck found in 1998 off the coast of Belitung Island (east of Sumatra) and its contents of numerous examples of Tang pottery and gold/silver metalwork. This book accompanies a traveling exhibition of the pieces recovered from the wreck which date to ca. 825-850 during the Tang and Abbasid Empires and the artifacts recovered subseqently rewrote history, evidencing an Indian Ocean maritime route for which no artifacts have so far been able to confirm.I ordered the book right after reading the article. It's a small book, some 25 pages of real text, the other half pictures. Very worth it if you're into underwater archaeology/diving and/or interested in less-studied regions of world history.

Very good