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500-Year-Old Treasure Ship Unearthed Under Namib Sands Packed With Ivory, Gold, and Lost Empire Secrets

Summary by The Daily Galaxy
The first clue did not look like treasure. In April 2008, inside Namibia’s tightly controlled U-60 diamond mining area, a geologist noticed what seemed to be a rounded stone half-hidden in the sand. It turned out to be a copper ingot, stamped with a trident mark linked to the Fugger banking family. That strange piece of metal appeared in one of the least likely places for a shipwreck investigation: the Sperrgebiet, the forbidden diamond zone on …
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The Daily Galaxy broke the news in on Sunday, March 22, 2026.
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