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A shipwreck containing 200 tons of silver has been discovered in the Atlantic ocean. It’s the large haul of precious metal ever discovered at sea. The question is: Who gets to keep it? The SS Gairsoppa, a UK cargo ship sunk by a German U-boat in 1941, was found by the US exploration firm Odyssey Marine, using a small submarine to search the bottom of the sea where they suspected the ship had been sunk.

Only one person from crew of 85 survived the torpedo attack. Three crew members survived in a lifeboat that reached the Cornish coast two weeks later, but two died trying to get ashore.
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There are Mayan secrets that have not yet been revealed, and one of these may have been an escape route from a volcano in El Salvador. On an August evening 1,400 years ago the Loma Caldera volcano erupted a short distance away from the village of Ceren there. Archeologists have discovered an ancient road, built by the Mayans, which must have been the village’s escape route. These sacbe, or "white ways," are raised roads paved with volcanic ash. They were built to connect temples and plazas within ceremonial centers or cities, although some of these structures no longer exist.
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