ARCHAEOLOGY

SPRING BOARDS

modern shipping accident off the coast of the Netherlands led to the discovery of a sixteenth-century shipwreck that may provide insight into a transitional during a storm in January 2019 also recovered three wooden planks and 12 timbers from a much older ship’s frame, as well as a cargo of copper plates. Upon examination, the plates were found to bear the crest of the German Fugger family, one of early modern Europe’s wealthiest banking families. Analysis of the wood has established that the ship was built in the late 1530s. The vessel sank sometime before 1545.

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