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1300–1819 CEIn-depth study
The Singapore Stone in the National Museum of Singapore, photographed on 12 July 2009. A surviving inscribed fragment; this study does not claim a decipherment or precise original date.
Picture source & rightsJon Callas / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · Resized and converted to WebP · Licence terms

Asia / Trade

Singapore before 1819: Temasek, trade and surviving evidence

Singapore did not begin with the British trading post. Archaeology and written traditions reveal a port connected to the wider Malay and Asian maritime world centuries earlier.

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