Chinese archaeologists on Tuesday released a list of the top archeological finds in 2015 and the top spot goes to a sunken warship from the first Sino-Japanese War (1894 to 1895).

The archaeologists also listed the Yangtze River Delta tomb as well as more than 700 pieces of rare cultural relics from the Liangzhu culture tomb located in Jiangsu province as part of the greatest finds in 2015.

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The warship was found by archeaologists near  the Dandong river in Northeast China's Liaoning province. It was later confirmed to be the Zhiyuan vessel; a famous vessel from the Beiyang Fleet that sank due to unknown causes on September 17,1894 during the first Sino-Japanese War.

"The discovery of this vessel has now provided a lot of material for the continous study of China's modern history, as well as the development of  naval ships and the history of the sino-Japanese war," Zhou Chunshui, an officals at the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH), told the press.

It was not mentioned whether the remains of the crew aboard the ship at the time it sank was found.

The archeological finds were chosen from dozens of new discoveries made in 2015 by judges from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and The Institute of Archaeology with the guidance of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Peking University as well as The National Museum and other archaeological institutions around the globe.

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