Sunken Mongol Empire ship found off Nagasaki Pref.

NAGASAKI, Japan - Yoshifumi Ikeda (R), a professor at the University of the Ryukyus, speaks at a press conference in Nagasaki on Oct. 24, 2011. Ikeda announced a recent discovery of the hull of a ship off the island of Takashima in Matsuura, Nagasaki Prefecture, which is believed to be part of a Mongol Empire ship that apparently sank during an invasion attempt against Japan. In the second attack by the Yuan Dynasty in 1281, a large number of vessels are believed to have sunk off the island due to a storm. (Kyodo)

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