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A Geologist Found a “Rock” That Led Him to a Shipwreck Full of Treasure
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (170+ words) The Bom Jesus set sail in March 1533, but it wrecked before it could return with its riches. Those riches took almost 500 years to resurface. “When I started, the artifacts were just sitting there collecting dust. They were deteriorating at a…...
Archaeologists Found a Fortune in Silver Left Behind by a 15th-Century Plague
1+ week, 5+ day ago (405+ words) The largest hoard of its kind ever found may mark the moment an epidemic swept through town. Someone in medieval Kolomna, Russia, buried over 2,600 silver coins in a small ceramic jug and never came back for them. Archaeologists working in…...
A Team Was Investigating a Millenia-Old Cellar—And Found a Medieval Ship In the Ceiling.
2+ week, 6+ day ago (291+ words) In a rarity, the entire hull of the ship was repurposed as construction material. The ceiling of a cellar constructed in 1244 C.E. along the Konradigasse in Konstanz, Germany, offers archaeologists a unique look into the medieval shipbuilding industry. Researchers exploring the…...
A Diver Stumbled Upon the Treasure of a Lifetime—and It May Lead to a Hidden Shipwreck
3+ week, 2+ day ago (394+ words) He uncovered 30,000 coins ancient coins in remarkable condition. They had to have come from somewhere. On May 25, 2023, a diver off Sardinia noticed something metallic in the seagrass near Arzachena. The first object led investigators to a much larger cache: tens…...
Archaeologists Recovered Henry VIII’s 400-Year-Old Lost Warship. What They Found Was Staggering.
3+ week, 4+ day ago (534+ words) Recovery of the Mary Rose unearthed more than 8,000 Tudor-era weapons, a shipwreck record. For 34 years, the Mary Rose was the pride of Henry VIII’s fleet. Then, in 1545, one ill-conceived maneuver doomed the 600-ton warship, sinking it in the Solent strait…...
A Fisherman Dove to Investigate a Rock—And Discovered a Roman Shipwreck Instead
3+ week, 4+ day ago (392+ words) The ship vanished into the Mediterranean more than 20 centuries ago carrying hundreds of amphorae. When spearfisherman Giacomo De Mola descended 150 feet below the water’s surface off the coast of Sicily, he expected to find a large rock. Instead, he discovered…...
Archaeologists Found a 440-Year-Old Coin that Marked the Lost Site of a Doomed Colony
4+ week, 8+ hour ago (193+ words) The Spanish colony Ciudad del Rey Don Felipe, located at the southern tip of Chile, lasted less than three years due to harsh conditions. “For centuries,” wrote the National Historical Museum in a translated post, “the exact location of its…...
Navy Researchers Scanned the Seafloor and Tracked a Ping. Then They Found a Staggering 500-Year-Old Shipwreck.
4+ week, 1+ day ago (373+ words) At 8,200 feet underwater, it’s the deepest wreck ever found around France’s coastline. Routine sonar investigations of the French seafloor led to the accidental discovery of a 16th-century shipwreck roughly 1.5 miles off the coast of Ramatuelle. The wreck, nestled 8,200 feet underwater,…...