The governments claim that the discovery. Diamond rush latest: KwaHlathi stones are quartz crystals not diamonds. Loaded with thousands of mint condition, pure gold coins from Spain and Portugal, historians are able to date the ship to between 15, whilst the cargo matches that on The Bom Jesus, as detailed in a rare 16th-century book “Memorias Das Armadas,” which lists the vessel as lost.įrom evidence at the site, Noli and his team have pieced together what happened to The Bom Jesus. Thousands of people had flocked to a hillside in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province to dig for mysterious stones first unearthed by a cattle herder and believed to be diamonds. When rumors of a diamond find hit social media, thousands of jobless South Africans rushed to a sleepy village. Weird News: Baby born using three peoples DNA for the first time in the UK. Though they are unable to unequivocally prove it, overwhelming evidence suggests the vessel is The Bom Jesus (“The Good Jesus”), a Portuguese ship on its way to India that never made its way beyond the Southern Atlantic. where people who were born in Africa but left as children during the. Were born at the beginning of time and will last for eternity. “I thought ‘Oh, no no, this is definitely a shipwreck.’”Īfter scrutinizing the find, archaeologists now think it might be one of the most significant shipwrecks ever found. town-a community built during the diamond rush and deserted almost immediately. Diamonds are one of the worlds, and specifically Africas, major natural resources. He uncovered a 500-year-old musket and elephant tusks. “It just looked like a disturbed beach, but lying on it were bits and pieces,” he recalls. More than 130 years after South Africas first diamond rush, hundreds of prospectors are hoping to strike it rich on the booming. At a loss, they called in an archaeologist.ĭieter Noli remembers first surveying the scene: The miners themselves did not know what they had hit on when they discovered pieces of metal, wood and pipes while they were bulldozing. What was found that day had not been seen since the 15th century.
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