{
  "id": 14048547,
  "title": "Colombian Archaeologist Reveals Another Treasure of the San Jose Galleon",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/colombian-archaeologist-reveals-another-treasure-of-the-san-jose",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-12T21:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Colombia One",
    "slug": "colombia-one",
    "url": "https://colombiaone.com/2026/10/12/colombian-archaeologist-san-jose-galleon-research/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Colombian archaeologist Ricardo Borrero Londoño has uncovered new insights into the San Jose galleon, a Spanish ship that sank in 1708. Borrero Londoño, a member of the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History and a PhD holder in nautical archaeology, focused his research on the ship's naval architecture and wooden structures. This information is published in a two-volume book titled \"Brief History of Iberian Ship Conception and Design (1570-1712): The Coordinate System that Preceded Descartes.\" The book, available worldwide starting September 18, explores how Iberian ships were designed using sophisticated mathematical and geometric principles that predated the publication of Cartesian geometry. The first volume of the book examines the conception and design of ships during the 16th and 17th centuries, while the second volume traces the development of galleons and compares structural components found in 17th-century Iberian shipwrecks with archaeological research.",
  "summary": "Last year, Colombian authorities recovered five objects from the San Jose galleon, which lies about 600 meters beneath the Caribbean Sea near Cartagena. The artifacts — a cannon, a porcelain cup and three macuquinas, or colonial-era coins — represent only a small sample of the valuable cargo that sank with the ship more than three […]",
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}