The wreck of a ship that may have sunk 500 years ago has been found by archaeologists excavating an old fish market in Barcelona, northeast Spain.
The crew discovered the wrecked stern of a big ship that might have capsized in the fifteenth or sixteenth century.
At a depth of five meters below sea level, a sizable piece of the boat, measuring ten meters in length and three meters in width and crossed by over thirty bent wooden ribs, was discovered intact.
Santiago Palacios Nieto, 30, director of the archaeological team, stated, “It is of great importance because it is uncommon to find underwater archaeological remains and when we do the studies on the keel and wood, etcetera, more details will be known.”
