Remains of 17th-century ‘Japanese Bridge’ in Vietnam found
12 Sep 2006 (Thanh Nien News) -
Remains of 17th-century ‘Japanese Bridge’ in Vietnam found
A team of Japanese and Vietnamese researchers has excavated remains of a 17th-century bridge believed built by Japanese settlers at the World Heritage site of Hoi An in central Vietnam, Kyodo reported…
The researchers from Showa Women’s University in Tokyo and the Hanoi National University found clayware and carbonized wooden pegs that appear to have supported bridge columns.
These were dug out from a 17th-century geological layer at a depth of 2.2 meters below a road at the foot of the bridge.
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