Salvagers show off dazzling bounty from 17th-century Spanish shipwreck
Sunday, April 7, 2013 - 16:00
in Earth & Climate
By Marc LallanillaLiveScienceA great superpower, weakened by economic calamity at home and staggering under the debt from years of war in the Middle East, finally collapses.A new political best-seller, or an apocalyptic Hollywood blockbuster? Neither — it's the story told by a 1622 shipwreck whose treasures were desperately needed to shore up the finances of the struggling Spanish Empire.The g...