The majority of shipwrecks from the era of the Great Discoveries now lie at the bottom of the ocean abyss or in shallow bays.
A Portuguese ship called the Bom Jesus was discovered in 2008 in Namibia's Sperrgebiet zone after being buried in the desert for nearly 500 years The ship contained over 2,000 gold coins, ivory tusks, ...
It wasn’t what the miners had come for. In Namibia’s far southwest, near the edge of the Atlantic, workers clearing sand in a high-security diamond concession struck something unexpected. Timbers.