15th-century shipwreck found full of treasures
Posted by stingray on May 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — The ship was laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins — and cannons to fend off pirates lurking off Africa some five centuries ago.It had nothing to protect it from the fierce weather off a particularly bleak stretch of inhospitable coast. It sank, only to be found last month by men seeking other treasure.”If you’re mining on the coast, sooner or later you’ll find a wreck,” archaeologist Dieter Noli, who is researching the ship’s origins, said in an interview Thursday, describing De Beers geologists stumbling on the wreck April 1 as they prospected for diamonds off Namibia’s southwest coast.
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