Geneaology and archaeology of Portuguese ships at the dawning of the modern world

Geneaology and archaeology of Portuguese ships at the dawning of the modern world: "Geneaology and Archaeology of Portuguese Ships at the Dawning of the Modern World
by Francisco Alves

To speak of 'Oceans, A Heritage for the Future' was the pretence for raising the corner of a veil that had been hiding a ship from India. Although originally hidden, in 1997 it began to gain a face and a name � crowning a project begun in 1996 under the auspices of the Commission of the Pavilion of Portugal for EXPO '98 and the Ministry of Culture.

Fig 1. View of the frame in the area of the stern from the wreckage of the 15th-century ship Ria de Aveiro A. Photo: Miguel Aleluia
A project that had as a backdrop, the problem of a nau that had presumably been wrecked at the very beginning of the 17th century. Its simple wreckage, 10 meters deep on the Lisbon sandbar, recalls a terrible maritime tragedy and documents one of the most significant parts of the largest Portuguese ships known and archaeologically documented of this era."