A fierce three-headed serpent and a mysterious female deity were among
the nearly two dozen 12th-century stone reliefs from Central Vietnam
that lay unseen at the bottom of the Arabian Sea for nearly 120 years.
Almost 5,000 miles away in the South China Sea, blue-and-white ceramic
bowls, plates and jars rested in the hold of a sunken ship off the
coast of Vietnam for more than five centuries. Preserved like time
capsules under the seas, these shipwrecks contained artworks that were
excavated in the 1990s by marine archaeologists, sold at auction,
purchased by individual collectors and then donated to the museum.
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