HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Mongols were powerful force in East Asia in the Middle Ages. The Mongol conquest of Southern Song dynasty in late 13th century [...]

Welcome to the official INA Blog for the Bach Dang River Survey Project! All of our team members appreciate you reading this blog. From now [...]

On a snowy Christmas night that seems long ago to me now, I stamped the snow from my shoes and placed my hand on the [...]

And they weigh a lot, at least the one we photographed on the 25th does! On another research and recon dive, this time off the [...]

The 23rd brought a day of data-crunching by the shore for me, while beneath the bay our teams worked steadily on, carefully expanding our trenches. [...]

With the last week of research at hand, things are busier than ever. Nevertheless, I find calm and focus daily as I leave the world [...]

The Mill is the nickname I have for the shipwreck site here at Novy Svet. The entire seafloor is composed of small to medium rocks; [...]

The 20th brought another set of carefully planned recon dives, ones that would have exciting results! As my recon team descended, I noticed that the [...]

One of Dr. Zelenko’s colleagues, a professor of Marine Biology at the University of Kiev, had some time ago requested help in retrieving samples from [...]

The 17th and 18th brought more reconnaissance work.  Wanting to record the positions and dimensions of some interesting artifacts slightly to the east of our [...]