Wreck of 400-year-old spice trade ship found off coast of Portugal in ‘discovery of a decade’
A 400-year-old merchant ship laden with bronze cannons and cowrie shells, which were used as currency in the African slave trade, has been discovered on the seabed off the coast of Portugal. Archaeologists believe the ship was returning from India on the spice route when it was wrecked off the town of Cascais, west of…