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Croatian underwater archaeologists discover rare 400-year-old bronze trumpets in a shipwreck

Croatian underwater archaeologists discover rare 400-year-old bronze trumpets in a shipwreck

Croatian underwater archaeologists have discovered rare bronze trumpets, unique on a global scale, on a sunken 16th-century ship near Cape Kamenjak off the southern coast of Istria. The bronze trumpets were found in the cargo of a sixteenth-century Dutch shipwreck in Leiden, the Netherlands. Dr. Luka Bekić of the International Centre for Underwater Archaeology in