UNESCO (the United Nations Education, Science and Culture office) has announced that it will be sending a team of experts to Haiti to ascertain whether the shipwreck found off the coast is indeed Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria, discovered by US explorer Barry Clifford.
According to a press release from Unesco, the team will be attending at the request of the Haitian Culture Minister, Monique Rocourt, to evaluate the wreck.
UNESCO director general Irina Bokova said that they were concerned that items from the wreck might be pillaged as it had been visited several times since 2003 and at least one 15th century cannon has now disappeared.
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