For the desert, people know the most about the Sahara, as the world's largest desert, is also world-famous, although the Sahara climate conditions are harsh, but the Sahara in Sanmao's pen is romantic, but there is a desert without the romance of the Sahara, and there is no vastness of the Gobi.
But this desert has the most colorful sand dunes in the world, the thousand-year-old centenarian orchid, the ocean on one side, the wonders of the desert on the other, and the landform that resembles the moon, it is also the oldest desert in the world, and its name is the Namibi Desert. The Namibi Desert is located in the Atlantic coastline of Namibia in southwest Africa, formed about 80 million years ago, the desert covers an area of 50,000 square kilometers, the main factor for the formation of the desert is because of the sinking of the Benguela cold current on the Atlantic coast, the cold current takes away the water vapor in the desert, resulting in lower precipitation year by year.
However, in addition to the various wonders of the Namibi Desert, the most striking thing is the ancient shipwreck that sank in the sandy sea, at the end of the last century, De Beers hired some geologists to mine diamonds, and geologists found some ancient ruins in the desert during exploration. They initially speculated that it might be an ancient city buried in a sea of sand, but when De Beers cleaned it up, it was discovered that it was not the remains of an ancient city, but an ancient shipwreck, which was supposed to sink in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, based on the weathering of the ship's hull.
While the cleaning was ongoing, the geologists of the De Beers Company found copper and ivory in the hull of the ship, weighing several tons of copper, and a lot of ivory, and in a water pipe, they also found Spanish and Portuguese gold coins, in addition to the ship's artillery and other equipment. If it were an ordinary merchant ship, it would not be enough to have such a large military force, and more importantly, the discovery of tons of copper and ivory, according to the information gathered by some archaeologists and geologists, the ivory trade was usually controlled by the royal family, and the appearance of tons of copper and artillery meant that the ship may have been looking for materials to make artillery.
However, 500 years is not enough time to turn the ocean into a desert, and this ancient shipwreck of the 15th century was hidden in the desert, and it may be that the crew pulled the ship into the desert, and if it was just to find artillery materials, it would not be so much trouble, they may be on some special mission. Moreover, this ancient shipwreck has not found a subordinate country, and Portuguese and Spanish gold coins were in circulation in almost every country in the 15th century, and it is difficult to find information about the country from them. Although the De Beers Company spent a lot of money to clean up, the two 15th-century gold coins found were estimated at more than $9 million (about 63 million yuan).
In the West, the wreck is ownerless, and the gold coins excavated by De Beers are auctioned off, which can also be donated to the state.