I keep thinking about this #smithsonian story I read the other day about a 15th century #Danish king's #warship and how if an accident hadn't sunk it, the #geography of the world and its #politics might have been very different. #shipwreck #storaekon #Sweden #gribshunden #history https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/extraordinary-500-year-old-shipwreck-rewriting-history-age-discovery-180978825/

1) The shipwreck of the 1495 medieval Danish warship Gribshunden turned out to have incredibly well-preserved plant remains, including expensive spices like saffron, peppercorns, ginger, and almond.

It's a “substantially complete royal medieval pantry” and is "[one of] the most fabulous discoveries of spices in any archaeological context, on land or sea"

View the paper here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281010

#Medieval #Gribshunden #Shipwreck #Archaeology #MaritimeArchaeology

Königliche Gewürze in 500 Jahre altem Schiffswrack
Flaggschiff-Wrack gibt Einblick in den Luxus an einem mittelalterlichen Hofstaat. #Schiffswrack #Gribshunden #Gewuerze #Archaeologie #Mittelalter
https://www.scinexx.de/news/archaeologie/koenigliche-gewuerze-in-500-jahre-altem-schiffswrack/

Nieuw onderzoek van het in de 60'er jaren gevonden scheepswrak van de #Gribshunden, heeft unieke informatie opgeleverd over de #specerijen en #kruiden in een laat-#middeleeuwse koninklijke #keuken.(1)
https://arkeonews.net/denmark-kings-spice-cabinet-discovered-on-gribshunden/