On a beach along the Skeleton Coast, the sand is filled with diamonds.
But in April 2008, workers found something very different: a piece of lost history--a shipwreck and its treasure.
The story began when a worker from the nearby diamond mines found a piece of metal on the beach.
It was a piece of copper. Soon, they found more copper and many gold coins.
The workers then found that these came from the remain of a large ship.
The shipwreck was the real treasure.
Archeologists studied the shipwreck.
They thought the ship probably came from Portugal about 500 year before.
However, it was difficult to find information about it.
In 1775, many maps and book about the ships of the time were lost in a fire in Lisbon.
"That left a big hole in our history," says Portuguese archeologist Alexandre Monteiro.
Finally, Monteiro found out that a group of ships left Lisbon for India in 1533.
One of them, the Bom Jesus, carried 300 people and a large amount of treasure.
The Portuguese sailors planned to use the treasure to buy expensive Indian spices.
Archeologists now believe the wreck might be the Bom Jesus.
This is because many of the gold coin found were Spanish.
Monteiro found an old letter in the Spanish royal archives.
The letter said that Spain gave Portugal money for the trip.
two thousand Spanish coins were put on the Bom Jesus .
this could explain why so many Spanish coin were found in a Portuguese shipwreck.
So what happened to the ship? The Bom Jesus probably got lost in a storm . then it smashed into rock near the coast and sank.
There were few human bones found, so the sailors were probably able to get off the ship. But even if they swam onto the beach, they would have found themselves in a strange, distant land.
They had no way to get home. They might as well have been on Mars. to this day , on one knows what happened to them.
On a beach along the Skeleton Coast, the sand is filled with diamonds.But in April 2008, workers found something very different: a piece of lost history--a shipwreck and its treasure.The story began when a worker from the nearby diamond mines found a piece of metal on the beach. It was a piece of copper. Soon, they found more copper and many gold coins.The workers then found that these came from the remain of a large ship.The shipwreck was the real treasure.Archeologists studied the shipwreck. They thought the ship probably came from Portugal about 500 year before.However, it was difficult to find information about it.In 1775, many maps and book about the ships of the time were lost in a fire in Lisbon."That left a big hole in our history," says Portuguese archeologist Alexandre Monteiro.Finally, Monteiro found out that a group of ships left Lisbon for India in 1533.One of them, the Bom Jesus, carried 300 people and a large amount of treasure.The Portuguese sailors planned to use the treasure to buy expensive Indian spices.Archeologists now believe the wreck might be the Bom Jesus. This is because many of the gold coin found were Spanish. Monteiro found an old letter in the Spanish royal archives.The letter said that Spain gave Portugal money for the trip. two thousand Spanish coins were put on the Bom Jesus . this could explain why so many Spanish coin were found in a Portuguese shipwreck.ดังนั้น ที่เรือเกิดอะไรขึ้น พระเยซู Bom คงได้หายไปในพายุ จากนั้นก็ทุบหินใกล้ชายฝั่ง และจมลงมีไม่กี่กระดูกมนุษย์ที่พบ เพื่อชาวเรือได้อาจจะออกเรือ แต่แม้ว่าพวกเขาพยายามไปที่ชายหาด พวกเขาจะได้พบตัวเองในดินแดนแปลก ห่างไกล พวกเขามีวิธีที่จะได้รับบ้าน อาจเป็นได้บนดาวอังคาร วันนี้ หนึ่งรู้ว่าเกิดอะไรขึ้นกับพวกเขา
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