[JimSEA]

Recently, shipwrecks near Nakhon Si Thammarat have yielded Roman coins of about this era along with Chinese porcelain. Earlier Roman coins have been found near Nakhon Prathom. It seems there was strong trade predating Islam's dominance in the areas of modern Malaysia and Indonesia.

[SunkenCiv]

Migraine: I believe the wisdom here is that the Romans had outposts on both the Red Sea and on the Persian Gulf, and ships aplenty both places. Their activities in and around India, though, remain far more obscure than those in the Mediterranean.

That sums it up nicely. :') Roman trade with India might have been substantiated earlier, except for two world wars and the disintegration of the British empire.

JimSEA: Recently, shipwrecks near Nakhon Si Thammarat have yielded Roman coins of about this era along with Chinese porcelain. Earlier Roman coins have been found near Nakhon Prathom. It seems there was strong trade predating Islam's dominance in the areas of modern Malaysia and Indonesia.

Definitely, and the Romans weren't the first, either, by thousands of years.

[SunkenCiv]

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