Allen Exploration retrieved priceless artifacts from Maravillas treasure ship — museum will showcase the discoveries.
that date back to the legendary 17th century Maravillas shipwreck — and the public is about to get a look at it., sank on Jan. 4, 1656, off the Little Bahama Bank in the northern Bahamas on a trip to Seville from Cuba. The 891-ton ship went down after colliding with its fleet flagship. The remains of the vessel were scattered for several miles across the ocean, with no significant portion of the ship left behind.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Allen Exploration founder Carl Allen said that he and his team began pulling up precious artifacts in July 2020 near Walker’s Cay.High-tech tools, plus the official permission they were granted by the Bahamanian government to search the Northern Bahamas area — known to be a wreckage hotspot — have made for "quite amazing" discoveries, the entrepreneur said.An Allen Exploration fleet is shown in the waters of the Bahamas.
Yet that didn’t stop Allen from proving his doubters wrong and discovering treasures that took his breath away. The team also discovered a silver sword handle belonging to the soldier Don Martin de Aranda y Gusmán; the item helped the teams identify these treasures as belonging to the sunken Maravillas.Four pendants worn by members of the sacred Order of Santiago, a religious band of knights active in Spanish maritime trade, were also recovered.AllenX considered the Order of Santiago jewels to be the "star" finds thus far.
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