Scientists hope to be able to fully reconstruct a ship Yuan Dynasty after the discovery of the keel along the 36 foot right on the sea coast of Nagasaki.
Japanese legend tells that the two "wind god" known as the Kamikaze, had destroyed two of Kublai Khan's invasion fleet with the loss of thousands of troops.
By using ultrasonic equipment, the scientists found well-preserved shipwrecks at 3 feet below the seabed.
Yoshifumi Ikea, a professor of archeology at the University of Ryukyus, Okinawa said the keel can help merekaulang warship is 60 feet long. "This discovery is very important for our research," he said.
"We plan to expand the search for and find more information that can help us restore the entire ship," he added.
More than 4,000 artifacts, including pottery shards, brick ballast, stone cannon balls and anchors have been found around the wreck, such as CNN reported on Thursday (27/10).
The historian said the two efforts invasion by the Yuan Dynasty to the Japanese attack ended in disaster, because the storm has halted expansion Kamikaze these Mongols. (Aya / das) ***
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