Qualla: Pandanan Shipwreck https://qualla.com/pandanan-shipwreck en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/7/n/pandanan-shipwreck-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Pandanan Shipwreck https://qualla.com/pandanan-shipwreck Pandanan Shipwreck: Introduction https://qualla.com/pandanan-shipwreck/ Photo credit Filipinayzd, CC BY-SA 4.0. Eduardo Gordirilla was not looking for history. He was looking for a lost basket of giant oysters. A longtime diver at a pearl farm on Pandanan Island, off the southern coast of Palawan, Gordirilla was working the seabed when he noticed jars protruding from the sand beneath a coral reef cliff. He told his manager, Efren T. Anies, who called the National Museum of the Philippines on 9 June 1993. What Gordirilla had stumbled upon was one of the best-preserved pre-Spanish trading vessels ever found in Philippine waters -- a Southeast Asian cargo boat dating to approximately the mid-15th century, a period when the Chinese imperial court had banned all private overseas trade, making any ship that sailed these waters a smuggler by definition.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/7/n/pandanan-shipwreck-wp/w97n-pandanan-shipwreck-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pandanan Shipwreck: The Ship Under the Reef https://qualla.com/pandanan-shipwreck/ Photo credit Filipinayzd, CC BY-SA 4.0. The wreck lay just 250 meters off the northeast coast of Pandanan Island, concealed beneath sand and mud under a coral reef overhang. Surveyors worked from 1993 to 1994 mapping the site before the Underwater Archaeology Division of the National Museum began formal excavation in 1...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/7/n/pandanan-shipwreck-wp/w97n-pandanan-shipwreck-the-ship-under-the-reef.mp3 0:06 2 full Pandanan Shipwreck: A Cargo from Four Kingdoms https://qualla.com/pandanan-shipwreck/ Photo credit Filipinayzd, CC BY-SA 4.0. The diversity of the Pandanan ship's cargo reveals the complexity of maritime trade in the 15th-century South China Sea. Alongside the Chinese wares, archaeologists recovered blue-and-white porcelain from the Chu Dau kiln in northern Vietnam -- bowls, dishes, pots, jarlets, cover...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/7/n/pandanan-shipwreck-wp/w97n-pandanan-shipwreck-a-cargo-from-four-kingdoms.mp3 0:06 3 full Pandanan Shipwreck: The Glass Bead Connection https://qualla.com/pandanan-shipwreck/ Photo credit Filipinayzd, CC BY-SA 4.0. Among the most revealing artifacts were glass beads found inside Vietnamese stoneware jars -- small spheres in black and red that seemed, at first, to be minor curiosities. Physical analysis of 204 beads from the Pandanan site, comparing their diameter, perforation size, shape, a...

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