In Namibia, 1533 Portuguese shipwreck's relics hidden away
AP
Published : Sep 17, 2017, 1:03 pm IST
Updated : Sep 17, 2017, 1:13 pm IST
More than 2,000 gold coins from the wreck, most of them Spanish and Portuguese, are in a central bank vault in Windhoek, the capital
Diamond prospectors in Namibia nearly a decade ago stumbled upon remnants of a shipwrecked Portuguese vessel whose trading journey to India was cut violently short by a storm in 1533. Today the artifacts from the doomed ship, described by archaeologists as one of that era's most important finds, remain a hidden treasure.
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