archaeologist found sunken treasure ships near Spain – UNIAN
The database he created contains 8,620 shipwrecks in this maritime territory.
Underwater archaeologist Alexandre Monteiro said about 250 treasure ships sank in the waters of the Azores and Madeira archipelagos, as well as on the Portuguese mainland coast.
According to Observapor, a researcher from the Institute of History, Territories and Communities at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa has compiled a map of shipwrecks in these regions. In total, he spent 25 years diving and studying underwater finds. The database he created contains 8,620 shipwrecks in this maritime territory.
“I have about 7,500 ships for the mainland coast, about 1,000 for the Azores and 120 ships for the Madeira coast. They sank there,” he said.
According to Monteiro, these were the ships that…
