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The Diamond Shipwreck - A 16th-century vessel carrying a fortune in gold (16 pics)In 1533, a Portuguese trading ship carrying a fortune in gold and ivory was swept ashore and wrecked by a winter storm. It was only found last year on a beach in southern Namibia.
Ironically, the ship, believed to be the nau Bom Jesus, wrecked on a beach rich with diamonds and named ‘Sperrgebiet’ which means "forbidden zone" in German. Archaeologists found a staggering 22 tons of ingots beneath the sand, as well as cannon and swords, ivory and astrolabes, muskets...etc and gold, of course: more than 2,000 beautiful, heavy coins – Spanish, Venetian, Moorish, French, Portuguese and other coinage. It is by far the oldest shipwreck ever found on the coast of sub-Saharan Africa, and the richest. It will take many years to study the wealth of material gleaned from the Diamond Shipwreck, as they now call it.                 [via National Geographic]
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