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03-15-2016, 10:54 PM
500-year-old shipwreck tied to Vasco da Gama discovered off the coast of Oman
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The 500-year-old wreckage of a Portuguese ship piloted by an uncle of Italian explorer Vasco da Gama (http://www.biography.com/people/vasco-da-gama-9305736) has been found off the coast of Oman, archaeologists said Tuesday, a discovery that included the recovery of an extraordinarily rare coin.
The Esmeralda sank during a storm near al-Hallaniyah Island in the Indian Ocean in May 1503, killing commander Vicente Sodre and all those aboard.
SEE ALSO: What 330 years of shipwrecks can tell us about hurricanes (http://mashable.com/2016/03/10/shipwreck-records-caribbean/)
A large group of researchers have been carefully studying the shipwreck since 2013,*but are only **w revealing many of their findings after completing their analyses.*Esmeralda is the earliest*ship from Europe's Age of Discovery (http://exploration.marinersmuseum.org/type/age-of-discovery/) ever to be found and scientifically investigated, according to a press release (http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vasco-da-gama-shipwreck-discovered-572076791.html) an**uncing the findings.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/15/shipwreck-tied-to-vasco-de-gama-discovered/)
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The 500-year-old wreckage of a Portuguese ship piloted by an uncle of Italian explorer Vasco da Gama (http://www.biography.com/people/vasco-da-gama-9305736) has been found off the coast of Oman, archaeologists said Tuesday, a discovery that included the recovery of an extraordinarily rare coin.
The Esmeralda sank during a storm near al-Hallaniyah Island in the Indian Ocean in May 1503, killing commander Vicente Sodre and all those aboard.
SEE ALSO: What 330 years of shipwrecks can tell us about hurricanes (http://mashable.com/2016/03/10/shipwreck-records-caribbean/)
A large group of researchers have been carefully studying the shipwreck since 2013,*but are only **w revealing many of their findings after completing their analyses.*Esmeralda is the earliest*ship from Europe's Age of Discovery (http://exploration.marinersmuseum.org/type/age-of-discovery/) ever to be found and scientifically investigated, according to a press release (http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vasco-da-gama-shipwreck-discovered-572076791.html) an**uncing the findings.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/15/shipwreck-tied-to-vasco-de-gama-discovered/)
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