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  • This 14th century chart was just rediscovered...it changes map making history [8:51]

    12/29/2023 10:42:10 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 8 replies
    YouTube ^ | December 18, 2023 | Geography Geek
    Late last year, a map that could revolutionize our understanding of the origins of modern mapmaking was rediscovered. Created in the aftermath of the Black Death, this map is the fourth oldest surviving complete portolan chart of Europe.This 14th century chart was just rediscovered...it changes map making history8:51 | Geography Geek | 256K subscribers | 89,502 views | December 18, 2023
  • Astronomers call for renaming the Magellanic Clouds...Explorer Ferdinand Magellan's name is not fitting, a group of scientists argues

    10/02/2023 8:50:28 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 80 replies
    Science News ^ | SEPTEMBER 26, 2023 AT 7:00 AM | By Emily Conover
    Names have significance, especially when they’re written in the stars. A group of astronomers is coalescing around an idea to rename two neighbors of the Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Named after explorer Ferdinand Magellan, the satellite galaxies are visible with the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere. But Magellan’s name is not fitting, astronomer Mia de los Reyes and colleagues argue. The leader of the first expedition to successfully circle the globe, Magellan enslaved and killed Indigenous people encountered on the voyage, which set out from Spain in 1519 (SN: 9/17/19). “Because we’re naming things in...
  • Galaxies Dedicated to ‘Colonist’ Explorer Must be Renamed, Demand Academics.

    11/16/2023 6:57:25 AM PST · by Bon of Babble · 50 replies
    The National Pulse ^ | 11/13/2023 | PULSE WIRES
    Astronomers have advocated for a renaming of two galaxies, currently named the Large and Small Megellanic Clouds after Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, due to his record of “violent colonialism.”
  • A tale of two cities: How we got the history of Calicut wrong (and what we can learn from it)

    08/17/2023 10:28:43 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 5 replies
    Phys dot org ^ | January 19, 2023 | University of the Sunshine Coast
    UniSC's Professor Patrick Nunn and Roselyn Kumar didn't set out to rewrite history.They were simply trying to research how India's coastline had changed over the centuries...At some point in the 16th century, the depictions and illustrations of Calicut stopped matching up with the old ones.The river was wrong. So were the boats. Where was the promised great maritime city and the trees heaving with fruit?...It was like Calicut had somehow teleported to a completely different location...The trouble started in 1498 with a man who was no stranger to trouble—Vasco da Gama. Da Gama had been sent by the King of...
  • The Wreck of the Schooner "WYOMING", the Largest Wooden Ship in History

    01/24/2022 1:51:05 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 81 replies
    YouTube ^ | January 22, 2022 | Part-Time Explorer
    The monstrous coal-hauling Schooner "Wyoming", built by Percy and Small in Bath, Maine, was the biggest wooden ship to sail the seas. On a routine voyage bringing coal to Saint John, New Brunswick, she disappeared.The Maine Maritime Museum has an excellent exhibit on the vessel, showing artifacts, models, and photographs of her.The Wreck of the Schooner "WYOMING", the Largest Wooden Ship in History | January 22, 2022 | Part-Time Explorer
  • 500 year-old shipwreck loaded with gold found in Namibian desert

    06/07/2016 3:47:41 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 63 replies
    Fox News.com ^ | June 7, 2016 | Walt Bonner
    Diamond miners recently discovered a ship that went down 500 years ago after draining a man-made lagoon on Namibia’s coast. While shipwrecks are often found along Africa’s Skeleton Coast, this one just so happened to be loaded with $13,000,000 worth of gold coins. It also answers a centuries–old mystery and is what some archaeologists are calling one of the most significant shipwrecks ever found. The wreck was first discovered along the coast near Oranjemund by geologists from the mining company De Beers in April 2008. One reason it took centuries to find is because it was underneath the ocean floor....
  • Asians in early America

    06/27/2023 8:05:46 AM PDT · by Theoria · 23 replies
    Aeon ^ | 13 June 2023 | Diego Javier Luis
    Asian sailors came to the west coast of America in 1587. Within a century they were settled in colonies from Mexico to Peru Cape Sebastian in Oregon perches above two forested declivities along a rocky patch of the state’s southern coast. Travel there today, and you are likely to miss a roadside marker that reads:Spanish navigators were the first to explore the North American Pacific Coast. Beginning fifty years after Columbus discovered the Western continents, Sebastian Vizciano [sic] saw this cape in 1603 and named it after the patron saint of the day of his discovery. Other navigators, Spanish, British,...
  • Benin Bombshell: Nigeria Transfers Ownership of Bronzes to King of Benin – Whose Ancestors Made Them From the Metal Which Bought Their Slaves

    05/05/2023 6:14:01 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 11 replies
    The Daily Sceptic ^ | May 5, 2023 | Mike Wells
    ...When on December 20th German foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock headed a large delegation to Abuja, she handed over a second small batch of the 1,130 pieces her country's five leading museums gifted to Nigeria in 2022... Little did she (one hopes) or the German public suspect what Buhari and the NCMM would do, just three months later. Gifting the restitutions to the Oba, who is bound to no enforceable curatorial standards, is controversial in the West; not least because of the campaign by black Americans who descend from slaves, and who demand that the artworks stay safe in the museums...
  • Shipwrecks Reveal Origins of Metal Used to Cast the Benin Bronzes

    04/10/2023 9:04:40 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 7 replies
    HeritageDaily ^ | April 5, 2023 | Markus Milligan
    The Benin Bronzes Consist of Thousands of Metal Sculptures and Plaques Which Adorned the Royal Palace of the Kingdom of Benin, Presently Located in Edo State, Nigeria...Although the collection is commonly referred to as the Benin Bronzes, the pieces are predominantly crafted from brass of varying compositions using the lost-wax casting method, a process by which a duplicate sculpture is cast from an original sculpture.Edo artisans used manillas, meaning bracelet, as a metal source for making the Benin Bronzes. Manillas were also used as decorative objects and currency across parts of Western Africa.In a new study published in the journal,...
  • Imperialism? The West didn't colonize. It civilized

    12/13/2022 9:28:49 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 20 replies
    Don Surber Blog ^ | 12/10/2022
    Every four years, the World Cup comes around and Americans become interested in soccer until the men’s team loses. Then it is back to football. There is women’s soccer, too, but it attracts little interest, in large part because it is woke.The rest of the world is soccer mad because it is three minutes of action packed into three hours of drinking beer. Americans have baseball for that.Soccer also has a political side, which Alain Destexhe of the Gatestone Institute explored in this year’s celebration in Belgium — the de facto capital of Europe. The cheering was raucous and illuminating.Destexhe...
  • Christopher Columbus ... crusader?

    10/12/2022 7:10:26 PM PDT · by DeweyCA · 35 replies
    Hotair.com ^ | 10-12-22 | The Stream
    While all this is true, Columbus stands for and is a reminder of something else that is now little known if not completely (and intentionally) forgotten: he was, first and foremost, a Crusader — an avowed enemy of the jihad. His expeditions were, first and foremost, about circumventing and ultimately retaliating against the Islamic sultanates surrounding and terrorizing Europe — not just “finding spices” as we were taught in high school. … Many Europeans were convinced that if only they could reach the peoples east of Islam — who if not Christian were at least “not as yet infected by...
  • Gibraltar Recognised as a British city, 180 years ate

    08/29/2022 8:45:51 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 9 replies
    Asia One ^ | AUGUST 29, 2022
    Gibraltar finally joined the official list of British cities on Monday (Aug 29), after 180 years in which its status, granted by Queen Victoria, had been overlooked due to an administrative error. The British overseas territory bid to become a city earlier this year as part of the celebrations for Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee, but research in the National Archives established it had in fact been granted city status in 1842. "It is excellent to see official recognition given to the City of Gibraltar, a huge accolade to its rich history and dynamism," British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in...
  • Rare 400-year-old ship found in German river is a stunningly preserved 'time capsule'

    08/11/2022 2:16:05 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 21 replies
    livescience.com ^ | Tom Metcalfe
    Maritime archaeologists in northern Germany have discovered the wreckage of a 400-year-old cargo ship that "sank almost standing," escaped decay from ravenous shipworms and still has the barrels of lime it was carrying for the stone-building industry centuries ago. The ship, a rare discovery, is from the Hanseatic period, when a group of northern European trade guilds dominated the Baltic and North seas from the 13th to 17th centuries, Live Science previously reported. Wood quickly rots away underwater in this region, and few shipwrecks of this age have ever been found. But maritime archaeologists think the wreck survived beneath the...
  • Shrimp fishers catch pristine 17th century wooden head

    08/08/2022 7:26:12 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 53 replies
    DutchNews.nl ^ | August 3, 2022 | unattributed
    A crew of shrimp fishermen made an unusual catch earlier this week when they pulled up a 17th century wooden head which may have formed part of the adornments of a large ship. The fisherman caught the head, which is in pristine condition, in their nets when fishing off the coast of the Wadden island of Texel on Monday morning. Crew member Victor Ayal put the find on Twitter, sparking a lively discussion about its possible origin, from the work of Vikings to that of Northern European shipbuilders. However, according to archaeologist Michiel Bartels, the head most likely dates from...
  • Hoard of priceless treasures recovered from 350-year-old Spanish shipwreck

    08/08/2022 7:14:09 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 13 replies
    CNN ^ | August 3rd 2022 | Megan C. Hills
    Stories of buried treasure and ancient shipwrecks have captivated for centuries, from pirate tales to Hollywood blockbusters. For one team of explorers, however, legend became reality when they uncovered a trove of artifacts from a 350-year-old sunken Spanish galleon -- including coins, gemstones and priceless jewels once belonging to seafaring knights.The Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (or Our Lady of Wonders) sank in 1656 after it collided with another boat from its fleet and crashed into a coral reef off the Bahamas. The vessel was carrying a haul of treasure, some of which was reserved as royal tax for King...
  • Wreckage from the legendary 17th-century Spanish galleon that inspired 'The Goonies' is FOUND off the coast of Oregon after the ship veered off course and vanished en route to Mexico over 300 years ago

    06/17/2022 8:43:13 AM PDT · by C19fan · 34 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | June 17, 2022 | Fiona Jackson
    The race is on for One-Eyed Willy's treasure, as part of the shipwreck of the boat that inspired 'The Goonies' has been found. Marine archaeologists have recovered timbers from the hull of the 17th-century Spanish galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos in sea caves in Oregon, USA.
  • Divers find rudder that sank HMS Invincible

    06/07/2022 11:07:23 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 11 replies
    Divernet ^ | June 3, 2022 | Steve Weinman
    “Just when you think you’ve found everything, on a quick return to Invincible we located the 11.5m-long rudder,” reported Bournemouth University Maritime Archaeology, after Rachel Bynoe and Heather Anderson from its diving team had discovered the rare item and fellow-divers Tom Cousins and Lee Hall had followed them down to record it.It was HMS Invincible’s rudder that had been responsible for the sinking of the warship in the Solent, 264 years earlier.Built by the French Navy in 1744, Invincible was captured by the Royal Navy at the battle of Cape Finisterre three years later and sailed to Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.Her...
  • The Mysterious History of Cinnamon

    05/09/2022 9:40:12 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 39 replies
    YouTube ^ | October 1, 2021 | Fire of Learning
    In this video, we look at the mysterious historical origins of one of the world's favorite spices: Cinnamon.
  • Salvaged Cape Cod Shipwreck Wood is the 1626 Sparrow-Hawk, Says Study

    03/28/2022 8:51:12 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 25 replies
    .ancient-origins.net ^ | 27 MARCH, 2022 - 23:00 | NATHAN FALDE
    An extensive new analysis published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports has produced new and impressive evidence supporting the idea that the shipwreck found in 1863 was the Sparrow-Hawk, something shipwreck historians have long believed but were never able to prove. Through the application of techniques that can accurately date wood and trace it to its place of origin, the scientists involved in this study have linked the pieces of timber found on a Cape Cod beach in 1863 to the shipbuilding industry of late 16th and early 17th century England. The 40-foot small pinnace ship that was scuttled...
  • Pirate Skeletons From 1717 Shipwreck Discovered Off Cape Cod

    02/12/2021 2:39:52 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 43 replies
    At least six pirate skeletons were recently discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod. The remains were unearthed from the wreck site of the Whydah, which sank near the town of Wellfleet in 1717, according to The Boston Globe. Investigators at the Whydah Pirate Museum said the skeletons were identified in several large concretions, or hard masses of minerals, from the wreck site. They are now being examined by a team of archeologists led by underwater explorer Barry Clifford, who discovered the Whydah in 1984, the museum said.