Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/05/11
By: Worthy Shen and Chi Jo-yao
Photo courtesy of Keelung City government
Taipei, May 11 (CNA) Multiple relics from different historical periods, including a Qing Dynasty blue and white porcelain medicine bottle, have been unearthed in Keelung during an excavation to find a city built by the Spaniards nearly 400 years ago.
The discovery was part of a joint project between Taiwanese and Spanish research teams which kicked off in early May at Heping Island in the northeastern Taiwanese city of Keelung.
It is aimed at locating a city named San Salvador constructed during Spain’s brief occupation of northern Taiwan from 1626-1642.
The relics uncovered on Friday included bone and shell tools dating back to the Neolithic period. Researchers also found cord-impressed ceramic tiles from the Iron Age, similar to those excavated at the Shihsanhang archaeological site located at the estuary of Tamsui River in northern Taiwan, according to Keelung’s Cultural Affairs Bureau.
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