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National Geographic : 1982 Nov
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The troop casualties probably exceeded 100,000, including those drowned at sea and others slaughtered by the Japanese on Taka shima. The Mongols never seriously threat ened Japan again. FOR SEVEN CENTURIES the remains of the Mongol fleet lay largely undis turbed on the seafloor off Takashima. Fishermen occasionally brought up by hand or in their nets such items as earthenware jars, stone bowls, and fragments of porce lain, but no systematic exploration of the 638 artifact-rich site was ever undertaken. In 19801 received a three-year grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education to de velop experimental techniques in underwa ter archaeology, a field in which Japan has lagged behind many other countries. With the Mongol fleet in mind, my colleagues and I selected the waters surrounding Taka shima as ideal for testing those new meth ods. One of the major problems in undersea exploration is the difficulty of seeing be neath the ocean floor. Until recently, nonmetallic objects buried NationalGeographic,November 1982
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