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MORE than 200 rare artifacts from the historic city of ... The exhibition, titled ‘Port Royal, Jamaica’ and jointly coordinated by the Institute of Jamaica and the Historical Museum, will ...
Jamaica's Port Royal was the Caribbean's most notorious ... for nearly 300 years until marine archaeologists began to bring artifacts to the surface. These discoveries have helped reveal the ...
Titled ‘Port Royal, Jamaica’, the exhibition ... marks the first time that a large collection of rare artifacts from that historic Jamaican seaside town, parts of which sank in the devastating ...
Port Royal in Jamaica was once known as the "wickedest city on earth", but it is hard to imagine that now. Today it is a small sleepy fishing village located at the mouth of Kingston Harbour that ...
Silver forks, pewter cups, ceramic dishes and other artifacts collected by underwater archaeologists from the remains of the submerged Jamaican city of Port Royal Credit: Photo: AP However ...
Now a relatively quiet fishing village, Port Royal was once so notorious that it was considered by many to be ‘the wickedest city on Earth’ – until it sank into the sea. At 08:09 on the ...
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Archaeologists will ask the United Nations’ cultural agency to bestow world heritage status on Port Royal, the mostly submerged remains of a historic Jamaican port known as ...
Port Royal was the main city of the British colony of Jamaica in the 17th century until ... underwater excavations have turned up artifacts including cannonballs, wine glasses, ornate pipes ...