Egyptian and Chinese porcelain

Egypt is "ceramic road" on a very important country in southeastern Mediterranean, Africa, Northeast Asia and the West, highlighted the Red Sea and the Mediterranean throat. Nile flows from south to north consistent throughout, the famous ancient city ruins Fusitate (now the Egyptian capital of Cairo) in the fertile Nile Delta, built in 641 AD, when the Egyptian trade centre, a 9th century when prosperity. Nile periodic flooding Evolved Egypt has a long and ancient civilization, the ancient Greek historian Herodotus said: "Egypt is the gift-giving Nile." Cultural exchanges between China and Africa began in China during the Qin and Han dynasties. As early as the Warring States Shang Yang Qi-Xiong, one of the ongoing reform of the ambitious, far from Alexandria in Egypt also has established a brilliant Alexandria City. Ancient Greek geographer Strabo in the "topology" that is described in this Mingwenxiaer the City: "It has an excellent harbour, Egypt is the only trade, and it is also the only Egypt A land trade, because of all the goods are easily transported from the river, gathered the world's largest market. " Egypt followed the fate of both the culture, arts, business or spirit have been written into the history of the world. Egypt from around the 9th century continue to import Chinese ceramics. Since 1912 Japan's Middle East culture-finding mission last of the three men, such as Fujitsu hills of ancient ceramics and scholars to explore this site, a total of six Fusitate, 700,000 tiles unearthed, of which 12,000 Chinese ceramics , The time span from the Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Site Unearthed in Egypt Fusitate the Yueyao porcelain are: 9 to the early 13th century celadon Yueyao, some engraved with lotus, Phoenix, and other patterns, there are more typical of the Tang Dynasty flat small round-Au - Choi, at the end bowl. In the 1960s in the Purcell and Ayizhabu and other sites Late Tang Dynasty have been unearthed in the early Song Dynasty to the Qing porcelain.

Apart from Egypt, other parts of Africa have also unearthed porcelain Yueyao. If the 1960s in Sudan Ai Habu, Halayibu such as the Five Dynasties Late Tang Dynasty unearthed in a celadon; mid-1950s in Kilwa Island also to the End of Tang Dynasty unearthed in the early Song Dynasty celadon According to statistics, Chinese porcelain unearthed in the country The site has as many as 46. In Kenya in the late 40's Amanda Island unearthed nine to 10 century celadon.