Atocha Spanish Silver: Watch the Case Online
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
In 1985, one of the greatest treasure discoveries was made off the Florida Keys, when the wreck of the Spanish ship Atocha was found. History Detectives translates 300-year-old documents from the archives of the Spanish treasury in Seville to crack a unique code of communication among ship captains of that era. Watch. (Originally aired: Season 5, Episode 4).
Click here for more: http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigations/504_spanishsilver.html
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