The giant bell of king Dhammazedi

 The giant bell of King Dhammazedi was built by orders of the king in the early fifteenth century, the king of the Bago kingdom in Myanmar today. It was presented to the Shwedagon Pagoda in Bago. The giant bell was made of copper, gold and silver, and the weight of the bell was about 300 tons, which is the largest bell in the world  .

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The giant bell 

nty-four years later, in 1608, the terrifying Portuguese warlord Felipe de Brito deposed the king and seized the bell with the intention of his son-in-law to make cannons for his ship.

 He loaded the bell on board the ship Pazundaung to Syriam.

 Unsurprisingly, the bell was so heavy on the ship that it sank at the point where the Bago and Yangon rivers meet.

 The bell has been lost since then, and all the legend of the bell has been around for 400 years. In the past decades, many national and international teams dived into the river to locate the bell, but none of them succeeded until the accountability of restoring the bell became a Buddhist and Burmese national task. It is believed that the bell is located 25 feet in the mud.  It is said that it is located among the wrecks of two ships of the Indiaman class belonging to the Dutch East India Company, but so far all attempts to recover it are unsuccessful.  Historical evidence, this information contains a lot of myths and was not supported by any valid evidence.