{"id":636043,"date":"2026-07-29T04:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=834931"},"modified":"2026-07-29T04:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:30:45","slug":"a-17th-century-shipwreck-full-of-moroccan-gold-baffled-divers-for-30-years-they-finally-cracked-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/a-17th-century-shipwreck-full-of-moroccan-gold-baffled-divers-for-30-years-they-finally-cracked-it\/","title":{"rendered":"A 17th-Century Shipwreck Full of Moroccan Gold Baffled Divers for 30 Years. They Finally Cracked It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a-17th-century-shipwreck-full-of-moroccan-gold-baffled-divers-for-30-years--they-finally-cracked-it-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Moroccan Gold\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>A shipwreck discovered in 1995 in Salcombe Bay off England\u2019s south coast left divers and researchers with more than 400 gold coins but no confirmed identity for decades. In June 2026, a nearly 30-year effort by the British Museum, Bournemouth University, and the South West Maritime Archaeology Group identified it as the Dutch trader Dom [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shipwreck discovered in 1995 in Salcombe Bay off England\u2019s south coast left divers and researchers with more than 400 gold coins but no confirmed identity for decades. In June 2026, a nearly 30-year effort by the British Museum, Bournemouth University, and the South West Maritime Archaeology Group identified it as the Dutch trader Dom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-636043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}