A ship dating back to the 1600s has been found near a hotel in central Stockholm. “The discovery of the wreck is extremely interesting given the place where it was made,” Maritime Museum Director Hans-Lennarth Ohlsson said in a statement from the Stockholm museum’s website. “There was a naval shipyard on this spot until the [...]
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By Allan Turner - Houston Chronicle
A&M archaeologists find a way to accelerate preservation of 17th-century shipwreck.Since its discovery in Matagorda Bay 15 years ago, the French ship La Belle has yielded a treasure trove of artifacts that offer unprecedented insight into 17th-century exploration of the New World.Weapons, trade goods, medical and navigational instruments — part of the approximately 1 million items plucked from the bay bottom — have found homes...
Pablo Picasso’s former electrician has come forward with the astounding news that he owns 271 previously unknown artworks from the artist. The treasure trove of 271 pieces includes lithographs, cubist paintings, notebooks and a watercolour and is said to be worth about 60m euros (£50.6m). Pierre Le Guennec, 71, reportedly says Picasso gave him the [...]
This summer we posted about an 18th century ship found buried beneath the streets of Manhattan near Ground Zero. Recently, while excavating in front of Stockholm’s Grand Hotel during renovation work to a nearby quay, workers discovered a most unusual ship. Believed to date from the 1600s, based on its location at the site of naval shipyard [...]
From BBC News
Pens made of wood found on the wreck site of the Mary Rose are being sold to raise funds for a new museum to house the Tudor warship.The 200 pens were created using oak, beech, elm, boxwood and timber, all found on the seabed of the Solent close to the wreck of Henry VIII's flagship.The Mary Rose Trust hopes to raise £50,000 towards the £35m museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. The vessel sank on 19 July 1545 with the loss of more than 400 lives.The wreck was discovered...
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By David Benoit - The Wall Street Journal
Spanish doubloons meant to fund wars, solid gold bars bound for Europe's royalty and bronze cannons that protected it all now sit scattered across the ocean floor from shipwrecks.But in a new investment plan by Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc., those long-ago sunken treasures could soon be part of investor portfolios. The Tampa, Fla., company, whose work has been documented on the Discovery Channel and on the pages of National...
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By Marcia Lane - St Augustine
For the about-to-open St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum on Castillo Drive, putting in a wheelchair ramp and a wall turned up artifacts that date to the city's British Period in the mid-1700s, and possibly earlier."This is everyday life in St. Augustine," said City Archaeologist Carl Halbirt of the discovery as he looked through artifacts uncovered by Step Back in Time, the contractors working on the museum scheduled to open Dec....
By Cathy Carter Harley - slandpacket
Stephen Hopkins was a minister's clerk who survived a 1609 shipwreck, joined a mutiny then survived a death sentence before successfully sailing aboard the Mayflower in 1620. He's also one of the most colourful ancestors of Nicholas Maher of Lady's Island. opkins is one of three of Maher's ancestors -- including Thomas Rogers and William Brewster -- who were aboard the Mayflower when it left England Sept. 6, 1620, and arrived 66 days later in America....Construction of a wheelchair ramp at the Pirate & Treasure Museum in St. Augustine, Florida, has turned up artifacts that date back to the 18th century. A battered piece of bronze is the most significant item found so far, says John Powell of the Colonial Spanish Quarter Living History Museum. “It’s the hilt fragment of [...]
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By Dan Scanlan - acksonville
Ahoy mates, there's some buried booty outside St. Augustine's new Pirate and Treasure Museum.But no one needed a map to find the hidden treasure, and it isn't gold doubloons.Workers digging Monday to install a handicapped-accessible ramp found historic artifacts from the nation's oldest city. Once it's cataloged and researched, museum spokeswoman Kari Cobham said a new exhibit will be added, aptly called "Buried Beneath Your Feet"...
Cristina Rabaza - Alligator
When a drought in Alachua County drained Newnans Lake down to a moist bed of mud, local high school students stumbled upon canoes that hadn’ seen the light of day in several millennia.Ten years later, the world’ largest ancient watercraft discovery is now on display at the Florida Museum of Natural History.“We dug around with our fingers in the sand for these wet chunks of wood, and we kept finding more and more canoes,” said Eastside...
From yivPost
Marine archeologists of the Khortytsia National Reserve in Zaporizhia have raised an ancient Cossack warship, a Cossack oak vessel, which had been lying beneath the waters of the reserve for some three centuries. Director of the Pivdenhidroarkheolohia State Enterprise Valeriy Nefedov told Interfax-Ukraine that the 18-meter long Cossack "oak"-type vessel is a "veteran" of the Russian-Turkish war of 1735-1739."The ancient vessel was discovered in waters near Khortytsia Island...
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By People's Daily Online
An ancient sunken ship was discovered at a construction site in Heze in east China's Shandong Province in September 2010, which was later covered by domestic media.The ship was made in the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) and is the oldest sunken ship ever found in Shandong, according to information from a press conference jointly held by the Shandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Heze Municipal Government and the Heze...
By att Deans - offs Coast Advocate
The history of shipwrecks of the Solitary Islands Marine Park, underwater Gallipoli battlefields and even a Japanese midget submarine will be revealed at the National Marine Science Centre later this week.The deputy director of the Heritage Branch, NSW Department of Planning and NSW State Government Maritime Archaeologist, Tim Smith, will share his knowledge of some of the historic wrecks he has been involved in identifying, mapping in Australia...
Skeletons dating back to the Stone Age have been discovered at Tal El-Karkh, in northwest Syria. A necklace of beads made of miscellaneous jewels, awls made of bones and multi-usage stone tools dating back to the late Stone Age were also discovered, said Syrian State-run news agency. ”The finds reflect the lifestyle prevalent at that [...]
A wooden ship dating back to the 13th-14th centuries has been found at a building site in China. Archeologists inspect a newly excavated sunken ship of ancient China’s Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368) in Heze of east China’s Shandong Province, Nov. 23, 2010. Archeologists in Shandong on Tuesday announced that they have discovered an ancient sunken ship [...]
From RT
Two fishermen have found more than a kilo of ancient gold jewelry, buried on the bottom of the river. Experts believe the find could be about 2,000 years old. The young men said that they had found the treasure while fishing in Bakhtemir river in Russia’ Astrakhan region. What they first though to be just a glittering object, turned out to be an ancient bracelet and necklace. ”The catch turned out to be a necklace with a decoration of a lying animal, similar to a cat and...
Around 8pm last night, I saw flashing blue lights racing out the harbor and switched on my VHF radio. I turned it on just in time to hear a plea for help from what sounded like a panicked woman. Moments later a man announced that his sailboat had lost steerage and was aground in the [...]