Around 250 ships loaded with treasures continue to remain near the coast of Portugal, only one of which can contain up to 22 tons of gold and silver. Portuguese archaeologist Alessandri Monteiro informed about the find. We learn about it from the TASS agency.
"We know that there are 250 ships with treasures there (ed. at the bottom of the sea)," the local newspaper Observador quoted him as saying. the location of most of the shipwrecks off the coasts of the islands and the mainland.
Their number is about 8,620 since the 16th century: "I know that the Spanish ship Nossa Senhora do Rosario from 1589 is lying on the seabed in front of Troy.
I did research, there are 22 tons of gold and silver there," said Monteiro.
Portugal was one of the largest colonial powers in the 15th and 16th centuries with overseas dominions in South America, Africa and the East Indies.
As a result of the gradual disintegration of the Portuguese colonial empire, such independent states as, among others, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique emerged.
