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Medievalists.net Menu  In 1533, the Bom Jesus – a Portuguese trading vessel carrying 40 tons of cargo including gold, silver, copper and more than 100 elephant tusks – sank off the coast of Africa near present-day Namibia. The wreck was found in 2008, and scientists say they now have determined the source of much of the ivory recovered from the ship. Their study, reported in the journal  Current Biology, used various techniques, including a genomic analysis of DNA extracted from the well-preserved tusks, to determine the species of elephants, their geographic origins and the types of la...

21 Dec 2020 Share: Not all shipwrecked treasure is gold and silver. One might think of a sunken herd, rather than a sunken hoard, as more than a hundred elephant tusks raised alongside the cargo of a stricken ship present a legacy of DNA to support a global history of our now endangered elephant population's ancestors...  Image: An African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis).  Credit: Nicholas Georgiadis In 1533, a Portuguese trading vessel carrying forty tons of gold and silver coins along with other precious cargo went missing on its way to India. In 2008, this vessel, known as the ...

Credit: Nicholas Georgiadis In 1533, a Portuguese trading vessel carrying forty tons of gold and silver coins along with other precious cargo went missing on its way to India. In 2008, this vessel, known as the Bom Jesus, was found in Namibia, making it the oldest known shipwreck in southern Africa. Now, an international collaboration of researchers in Namibia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States reporting in the journal Current Biology on December 17 have found that the ship's cargo included more than 100 elephant tusks, which paleogenomic and isotopic analyses trace to ...