More than five centuries after Christopher Columbus's flagship, the Santa Maria, was wrecked in the Caribbean, archaeological investigators think they may have discovered the vessel's long-lost remains – lying at the bottom of the sea off the north coast of Haiti. It's likely to be one of the world's most important underwater archaeological discoveries.

"All the geographical, underwater topography and archaeological evidence strongly suggests that this wreck is Columbus' famous flagship, the Santa Maria," said the leader of a recent reconnaissance expedition to the site, one of America's top  underwater archaeological investigators, Barry Clifford.

"The Haitian government has been extremely helpful – and we now need to continue working  with them to carry out a detailed archaeological excavation of the wreck," he said.

So far, Mr. Clifford's team has carried out purely non-invasive survey work at the site – measuring and photographing it.

Tentatively identifying the wreck as the Santa Maria has been made possible by quite separate discoveries made by other archaeologists in 2003 suggesting the probable location of Columbus' fort relatively nearby. Armed with this new information about the location of the fort, Clifford was able to use data in  Christopher Columbus' diary to work out where the wreck should be.
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AC, "After Columbus", within 100 years 90% of Americans were dead..... greatest catastrophe in history IMHO. The knowledge lost is still only partially understood.
Read "1491" by Charles Mann for a new perspective on "America" and what we lost.

Can't pull up the link...

Quote from: taxed on May 15, 2014, 02:07:18 PM
Can't pull up the link...

This is a link for CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/13/world/americas/christopher-columbus-santa-maria/

Not 500 years, but still lot of time - WWII airplane MiG-3 found in the lake in Russia restored to original flying condition:
http://kak-eto-sdelano.livejournal.com/168195.html?style=mine

Quote from: Ek Ehecatl on May 15, 2014, 01:01:59 PM
AC, "After Columbus", within 100 years 90% of Americans were dead..... greatest catastrophe in history IMHO. The knowledge lost is still only partially understood.
Read "1491" by Charles Mann for a new perspective on "America" and what we lost.

What knowledge in particular?

I'm a big fan of Manly P. Hall but it is important to remember that the esoteric view on world history is not accurate at all and serves more as spiritual inspirational blueprint to recover lost virtue and sense of historical purpose and continuity than historical accuracy.

The loss of human life was tragic (90% may be exaggerated, but that doesn't make the dead any less dead). Lamenting the immensity of "lost knowledge" is an exercise in circular reasoning. We don't know how much knowledge was lost, nor do we know if any was lost.

Much of what we do know of Pre-Columbian Meso-Americans and South Americans is of their brutality - e.g. Aztecs cutting out the beating hearts of 10s of thousands of captives every year as sacrifices to their gods. Less brutal human sacrifices among the Mayans and Inca. As brutal as many conquerors were, they were much less so than many of the conquered. Romanticizing the Aztecs or Mayans isn't any more faithful to history than romanticizing the conquistadors. We should worry more about not being monsters than about the skin color of particular monsters IYKWIM.

Quote from: Mountainshield on July 02, 2014, 01:49:39 AM
What knowledge in particular?

Knowledge of plant and other medical treatments and cures, for one thing. The same thing happened when the Spanish "conquered" the indigenous peoples of South America.