A Portuguese ship from 1533 was found buried in Namibia's Namib Desert in 2008. It contained over 2,000 gold coins, ivory, ...

In August 2024, the Jasper House Museum in Oranjemund, Namibia, unveiled a new exhibition dedicated to the artifacts recovered from the Bom Jesus, a 500-year-old Portuguese shipwreck discovered in the ...

In 2008, miners sifting through the sands of Namibia’s Sperrgebiet — a restricted diamond mining zone near the Skeleton Coast — stumbled upon what looked like wooden beams and rusted metal. What they ...

The Namib Desert, which runs along the Atlantic Ocean, is more than just a stretch of barren land. A few years ago, archaeologists in Namibia discovered a 500-year-old Portuguese shipwreck from the ...