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 remains of a large ship.
The shipwreck was the real treasure.
Archaeologist studied the shipwreck.
They thought the ship probably came from Portugal a bout 500 year before.
However,it was difficult to find information about it.
In 1775, many maps and books about the ship of the time were lost in a fire in Lisbon.
"That left a big hole in our history," says Portuguese archaeologist Alexandre Monteiro
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 treasureThe 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 remains of a large ship.The shipwreck was the real treasure.Archaeologist studied the shipwreck. They thought the ship probably came from Portugal a bout 500 year before.However,it was difficult to find information about it.In 1775, many maps and books about the ship of the time were lost in a fire in Lisbon."That left a big hole in our history," says Portuguese archaeologist Alexandre Monteiro
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