500-Year-Old Treasure Ship Found Buried in Namib Desert, Packed With Gold, Ivory, and Lost Empire Secrets

Daily Galaxy ^ | December 02, 2025 | Arezki Amiri

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bom_Jesus_(ship)

[Red Badger]

Ping!...............

[ClearCase_guy]

Fire that navigator.

[Jonty30]

There must have been an inlet sea for it to get stranded on land.

[griffin]

Incredible! Thanks!

[Gary from Dayton]

Yep,
Climate change

[Red Badger]

I never find anything cool like this..................

[Repeal The 17th]

I saw that movie.
“Sahara”

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Sounds a bit like Sahara (2005), starring Matthew McConaughey, Penélope Cruz, and Steve Zahn. It follows the story of Dirk Pitt, a master explorer who teams up with a WHO doctor to search for a lost Civil War ironclad battleship known as the “Ship of Death” that is rumored to be buried in the Sahara Desert of West Africa. The plot centers on a treasure hunt that turns into a dangerous adventure involving a deadly conspiracy, a disease outbreak, and a ruthless dictator.

[Red Badger]

Yep, exactly so!.............

[going hot]

Literal boat load of stuff, on the beach, on dry land.

So much for rising seas.

[Red Badger]

And because it was found on land an not the ocean, Namibia gets all of it................

[Magnum44]

I never find anything cool like this.....

You just need to look harder…

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

• 500 year-old shipwreck loaded with gold found in Namibian desert [06/07/2016]

[Mean Daddy]

Due to shifts in the Missouri River over the years, there have been several steam ship recoveries in cornfield in Nebraska and Iowa.

[going hot]

Hmm, prolly found it a few years ago in the water and dragged it ashore to “find” it later!

[slag]

At the link there is a picture of the buried wreck of a ship in the sand that has a smoke stack. I didn’t know that they had oil burning ships in the 16th-century.

[Red Badger]

I think That’s actually a picture of a Russian ship in what used to be the Aral Sea, but is now a desert due to Soviet mismanagement of natural resources......................

[Red Badger]

I think That’s actually a picture of a Russian ship in what used to be the Aral Sea, but is now a desert due to Soviet mismanagement of natural resources......................

[slag]

Read the caption under the picture.