[(Title)] Archaeologists in Portugal say 400-year-old shipwreck is the 'discovery of the decade'.

Archaeologists searching Portugal's coast have found a 400-year-old shipwreck believed to have sunk near Lisbon after returning from India laden with spices.

考古学家在葡萄牙海岸发现了一艘拥有400年历史的沉船，据信这艘船是在从印度满载香料返回里斯本的途中沉没的。

Project director Jorge Freire said from a heritage perspective the vessel was the "discovery of the decade".

项目主管豪尔赫·弗莱雷说，从遗产的角度看，该船是“十年一见的发现”。

"In Portugal, this is the most important find of all time," he said.

他说：“在葡萄牙，这是有史以来最重要的发现。”

In and around the shipwreck, 12 metres below the surface, divers found spices, nine bronze cannons engraved with the Portuguese coat of arms, Chinese ceramics and cowry shells, a type of currency used to trade slaves during the colonial era.

在沉船及其四周——海平面以下12米处——潜水员发现了香料、九枚刻有葡萄牙盾徽的青铜炮弹、中国陶瓷和白贝齿——殖民时代用来买卖奴隶的货币。

Found on September 3 off the coast of Cascais, a resort town on the outskirts of Lisbon, the shipwreck and its objects were "very well preserved", Mr Freire said.

弗莱雷说，该船于9月3日在卡斯凯什海岸附近被发现，该镇位于里斯本郊区的一个度假村镇，沉船及其物品“保存得非常好”。

Mr Freire and his team believe the ship was wrecked between 1575 and 1625, when Portugal's spice trade with India was at its peak.

弗赖尔及其团队认为，这艘船在1575年至1625年间被毁，当时葡萄牙与印度的香料贸易处于高峰。

In 1994, Portuguese ship Our Lady of the Martyrs was discovered near Fort of Sao Juliao da Barra, a military defence complex near Cascais.

1994年，在卡斯凯什附近的军事防卫综合设施圣胡利奥达巴拉堡附近，发现了葡萄牙船只Our Lady of the Martyrs号。

"For a long time, specialists have considered the mouth of the Tagus river a hotspot for shipwrecks," Minister of Culture Luis Mendes said.

文化部部长路易斯·门德斯说：“长期以来，专家们一直认为塔古斯河口是沉船的热门地区。”

"This discovery came to prove it."

“这一发现证明了这一点。”

The wreck was found as part of a 10-year-old archaeological project backed by the municipal council of Cascais, the Navy, the Portuguese Government and Nova University of Lisbon.

这次残骸的发现是10年考古项目的一部分，该项目由卡斯凯什、海军、葡萄牙政府和里斯本诺瓦大学市政委员会支持。

Reuters