ICRT Radio News
Date: 2018-12-29
An underwater archaeological work station in the offshore island county of
Penghu opened Wednesday to preserve and exhibit Taiwan’s underwater cultural
assets.
The Ministry of Culture’s Bureau of Cultural Heritage says the workstation
was formerly the historical Penghu Post Office.
The Bureau says for more than a decade, underwater cultural assets have been
recorded in the waters around Penghu.
The Bureau reveals that as of September this year, a total of 87 shipwreck
sites of historical value had been found, spanning from the Ming and Ching
dynasties to the Japanese colonial era.
A multimedia exhibition, which kicked off opening day, will run until the end
of November next year, showcasing artifacts from the British steamship
S.S.Bokhara, which sank in a typhoon on October 10, 1892 near Penghu.
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