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The researchers discovered an Australian freighter – SS Wollongbar II – when it was discovered off the east coast of Australia near the town of Crescent Head, in the state of New South Wales. The ship sank during World War 2 in 1943, when it was struck by two torpedoes fired by a Japanese submarine. The attack killed 32 of the 27 crew on board, but the five survivors were rescued by fishermen – Tom and Claude Radleigh – and taken to Port Macquarie, located 240 miles north
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Archaeologists led by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered a real-life buried treasure on the country s Mediterranean coast. Excavations and conservation work in the port city of Caesarea have revealed a cache of rare coins and a 900-year-old gold earring. Among the hoard of coins are examples of currency never seen before in Israel.
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Almost 2,000 years ago, the Roman settlement was obliterated by one of the deadliest volcanic eruptions in history when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The natural disaster ejected molten rock, pulverised pumice and hot ash at 1.5 million tonnes per second onto Pompeii s 12,000 residents – in what would have been a horrifying death. But it also covered the city in a blanket of thick material, allowing modern-day scientists to continue to study how events unfolded.
The convoy was heading south from Cuba, where conquistador Hernan Cortes first made land in 1519.
All of the captured were subsequently sacrificed or even eaten over the ensuing months, according to INAH.
When Cortes caught wind of the sacrifices, he ordered troops to go in and destroy the village as an act of revenge.
Archaeology news: Conquistadors slaughtered Aztec town of women and children in revenge act (Image: GETTY)
The Aztec town known as Tecoaque, which , translates to the place where they ate them in the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs (Image: GETTY)
Most of the inhabitants heard the attack was coming and so fled, but this was not before the bones of the sacrificed Spaniards were thrown in to wells, the archaeologists revealed.