hyruo 4 hours ago

I saw in the article that antique collector Lâm Dũ Xềnh was mentioned, and then I realized his surname Lâm is a typical Chinese surname, so he might be Han Chinese. Then I looked it up and found a video on YouTube where someone visits his collection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk6cQZ53P0c. The video introduction confirms that he really is of Chinese descent.

wdutch 5 hours ago

I was in The Ho Chi Minh City History Museum this weekend and they have some very cool shipwreck exhibits, worth checking out.

flossly 2 hours ago

> The Star of David [with an arrow]

David almost certainly never used the symbol. Despite it currently popular name, there's no evidence that King David (who lived around 1000 BCE) ever used the six-pointed star as his symbol. The connection between the hexagram and David is a much later tradition.

The symbol itself is ancient and appears in many cultures. During the medieval period the hexagram was arguably more prominent in Islamic contexts than Jewish ones. Which explains why it's along Arabic text found in Vietnam.

i_am_a_peasant 5 hours ago

My wife is vietnamese, I am learning vietnamese, i am interested in vietnamese history. Yet I cannot bring myself to care about this article lol.