The “deadly” treasure beneath the deep sea comes back to life after 3 centuries. Today, over 280 years later, this ill-fated ship’s story is being resurrected through the meticulous work of archaeologists [1200×1200]
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The “deadly” treasure beneath the deep sea comes back to life after 3 centuries. Today, over 280 years later, this ill-fated ship’s story is being resurrected through the meticulous work of archaeologists [1200×1200]
by bigmeat
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Oh those blades are just gorgeous! Not too familiar with sabre typologies outside of East Asian ones, but I wish I could get a closer look
“It’s got a dragon painted on the blade…”
Interesting, you’d think they’d be exporting dog/flintlock mechanisms, and not swords. Although I guess it makes sense to export weapons to colonies that aren’t as good as what’s in your armories.
Also fascinating that the sailors themselves were speculated to be trading privately, given the large amount of older coins found along the Spanish reals and bars. Makes me wonder how often expeditions like this were, at least in part, crowd-funded by the sailors.
that’s a goofy ass sun lol. owner probably had a sense of humor
Does the face of the engraving of the sun actually spell a year, 1766?