“A small bronze Buddha statue, documented as a relic of ancient Chinese Ming dynasty, may be evidence that Chinese sailors landed in Australia centuries before Europeans,” Summarizes, on March 8, the Australian news site News.
The story begins in 2018. Two documentarians equipped with metal detectors survey a beach in Western Australia, about 800 kilometers from Perth, in order to prepare for filming Baudin’s French Expedition (1800-1803). . but, ecrit Guardian AustraliaAnd “There was no trace of exploration going back to the Napoleonic era.”.
What they found, however, was “much more unexpected” : a bronze Buddha statue 15 cm high, weighing 1 kilo, probably several hundred years old. Then Léon Deschamps and Cheyne Thompson did a long job trying to understand how the Chinese statuette could have ended up in Shark Bay.
Carved between 1368 and 1644
Convinced that it was an old coin, they decided to legalize it in the United Kingdom the offer Antiques promotionon BBC. And
