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On March 7, 1533, a Portuguese three-masted carrack (also known as a Nau) called the Bom Jesus, or “Good Jesus,” sailed down the Tagus River, wound its way through Lisbon, and slipped out into the Atlantic on its 15-month journey to gather spices from faraway lands. Some 300 souls were aboard, including sailors, soldiers, enslaved people, merchants, priests, and the captain, Dom Francisco de Noronha...
After nearly 500 years, the ship faded from memory. But then in 2008, a company geologist at a diamond-mining venture called Namdeb, which is jointly owned by De Beers and the Namibian government, came across a strange, roughly circular rock in the sand.
As it turned out, this wasn’t a rock at all, but rather a copper ingot bearing the insignia of a trident, a known mark of Anton Fugger—one of Europe’s wealthiest merchants...
Among the over 40 tons of cargo retrieved from the excavation site, thousands of different artifacts were recovered and cataloged, including cannons, firearms, swords, lead, tin, textiles, and astronomical devices.[1] However, the most bountiful discoveries of the shipwreck were the collection of 1,845 copper ingots weighing approximately 16-17 tons, over 2,000 gold and silver coins from multiple contemporary maritime powers, and 105 different elephant tusks weighing close to 2 tons...
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A geologist kicked a rock—or so he thought. It led him to one of the world’s richest shipwrecks.
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The front of the coin showing a cross-over-cross motif. (Image credit: H. Hollund, Archaeological Museum, UIS. |
A metal detectorist in Norway dismissed a rare 900-year-old silver coin as a button, before researchers realized it was a one-of-a-kind piece linked to Magnus Barefoot (also known as Magnus Berrføtt), the warrior ruler often called Norway's last Viking king.
The coin, found in a field near Utstein Monastery in southwest Norway, dates to Barefoot's reign from 1093 to 1103. It is the first coin of its type ever discovered on Norwegian soil....
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An archaeological excavation is a little like eating a layered cake: Once you have removed a layer, you cannot put it back. The problem becomes even trickier if two layers look almost exactly the same. Researchers from Aarhus University and Moesgaard Museum in Denmark have now developed a relatively inexpensive multispectral imaging system that gives archaeologists more ways of looking at the soil before they dig into it...Here is the link for more about that.
LED lets archaeologists see the past in a new light | EurekAlert!
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