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Found again after five hundred years...
1 of 9: The full riddle is, "Found again after five hundred years, an exotic object lying in a vessel's store far beneath the waves on the Pacific floor."
2 of 9: This is obviously not referring to a sea animal...
3 of 9: ... or a maritime instrument.
4 of 9: Rather, it must refer to an object dating back to an earlier civilization.
5 of 9: Explore the items in the Captain's Quarters, reading about each of them.
6 of 9: What might Captain Nemo have recovered from the floor of the Pacific Ocean, that is five hundred years old?
7 of 9: Perhaps it is one of the pieces of pottery against the left-hand wall... but which one?
8 of 9: 500 years ago, the Pacific was navigated by Asians, not Egyptians or Greeks or Italians.
9 of 9: The answer to the riddle is the Chinese porcelain, Yuan Dynasty.
