Weapon Chest With Tools To Make Ammunition Found In 500-Year-Old Griffin Shipwreck

Weapon Chest with tools to make ammunition found in 500-year-old Griffin Shipwreck
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Maritime researchers have discovered weapons chest, and pieces of armour from a 500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sweden.

According to a news release from Stockholm University, a fire on Griffin (also popularly known as the Gribshunden or Griffin-Hound) while sailing to Kalmar in 1495 caused it to sink.

The ship served as the flagship for John, also famous as Hans, the Danish-Norwegian king who was in power from 1481 until 1513.

The research findings are laid out in the...

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