Archaeologists have found many almost intact preserves of a 2-meter-long fish in the compartment of a Danish ship that sank more than 500 years ago in what is now Sweden.
Sputnik quoted archaeologists from Lund University in Sweden as saying that when digging up the wooden box inside the sunken Gribshunden, they discovered the remains of the sturgeon that was almost complete and well preserved.
The discovery, which researchers call the unique and endless, thanks to the special characteristics of the Baltic Sea, a semi-closed (semi-closed) sea with low oxygen content.
According to Lund University's marine archaeologist Brendan Foley, who supervised the excavation, the sunken ships were in incredibly good condition due to the low salinity of the sea, which was not suitable for wood parasians. Another conservation factor is that the seabed is mainly fine clay, which is ideal for preserving organic matter.
In 1495, King Hans of Denmark (also known as King John in English) set off to Sweden on his best ship, the Gribshunden - one of the most powerful warships of his time - with the aim of restoring the League of three Scandinavian states under his rule.
The kings expensive giant fish is a propaganda tool, as is the ship. Everything on the ship carries a political mission, and that also makes the discovery more interesting. It gives us useful information about the turning point for nation-building in Europe when politics, religion and the economy - everything - are changing, Foley said in a statement.
Discovering in the unique Gribshunden wreckage endlessly in Scandinavia and Europe because such long-standing and well-preserved reefs have only been found in water on rare occasions.
However, the Gribshunden ship was sunk along with valuable goods and a part of the crew off the coast of RonnEBy, currently in Sweden. King Hans himself was not on the train in the disaster. The loss of one of the most prestigious ships has hit a terrible blow to the reputation of King Hans and negatively affected the Kingdom's political and military strength.
Although the Kalmar Union, consisting of three countries Denmark, Sweden and Norway, survived the ship sinking, it was dissolved about a quarter of a century later, when Sweden seceded in 1523.
