Scientists have opened a combination lock that has been closed for almost 450 years.
With his help, the treasure chest in the sunken ship Anne Francis was locked.
The combination to open the lock turned out to be a combination of the letters ANCE. Computed tomography helped scientists identify it - they created a detailed 3D image of the lock's internal mechanism and were able to see how the bumps line up with the letters. At the same time, the object, which hid the contents of the chest for four hundred years, was not damaged.
The ship Anne Francis was wrecked in December 1583. The ship got caught in a storm, lost its course and crashed. The ship's cargo was buried under the sand. Only years later, due to changes in the coastline, the treasures rose to the surface.
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