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A heavily encrusted wooden shaft of a 16th-century anchor rises from the seafloor off Mexico's Gulf Coast, surrounded by a carefully excavated depression that represents countless hours of delicate underwater work. This rare artifact, carbon-dated to the early 1500s, likely belonged to one of the vessels deliberately sunk by Hernán Cortés in 1519—emerging briefly from its five-century slumber in a painstaking archaeological race against sediments that threatened to reclaim the site almost as quickly as it could be uncovered.
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Expedition: Lost Ships of Cortés - The Sunken Fleet That Changed Two Worlds
A heavily encrusted wooden shaft of a 16th-century anchor rises from the seafloor off Mexico's Gulf Coast, surrounded by a carefully excavated depression that represents countless hours of delicate underwater work. This rare artifact, carbon-dated to the early 1500s, likely belonged to one of the vessels deliberately sunk by Hernán Cortés in 1519—emerging briefly from its five-century slumber in a painstaking archaeological race against sediments that threatened to reclaim the site almost as quickly as it could be uncovered.