在一项了不起的发现中，研究人员可能已经找到了这位著名的葡萄牙探险家最后一次航行到印度洋时乘坐的船只。
这艘沉船位于肯尼亚马林迪附近，引起了许多考古学家的注意。尽管这艘船于2013年在肯尼亚海岸约500米外的珊瑚礁上被发现，但它在500年前沉没，可能是瓦斯科·达伽马的船“圣豪尔赫”号。
来自科英布拉大学、肯尼亚国家博物馆和卑尔根海事博物馆的学者们正在努力确定这艘船的身份。
这艘沉船出土了许多文物，研究结果发表在《海洋考古学杂志》上。在沉船中发现的重要文物包括象牙、铜锭和船体上的木材。
瓦斯科·达·伽马开辟了一条从欧洲到印度洋的航线，他是第一个发现连接欧洲和非洲的海上航线的人。他也是第一个绕非洲最南端的好望角航行的人，这导致了葡萄牙在印度洋的贸易的开始。
在他的一生中，瓦斯科·达·伽马在印度洋进行了四次航行，最后一次是在1524年，当时有一支由20艘船只组成的舰队，其中包括圣豪尔赫号。
圣豪尔赫号于1524年晚些时候在达伽马去世前沉没。据研究人员称，这是印度洋最早的沉船之一。
研究人员表示，这些文物的暂定日期表明这艘船正在前往印度的旅途中。
为了确认这艘船是否真的是达伽马的船，考古学家们将对附近的珊瑚礁进行调查，从马林迪延伸到拉斯恩戈梅尼角25公里。
马林迪及其周边地区有许多葡萄牙沉船。16世纪，葡萄牙人开始建造可用于战争和海洋探索的大帆船。它们有3或4根桅杆，可以配备火炮。该设计是从欧洲复制的，改变了欧洲扩张的进程。
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英文原文
In a remarkable discovery, researchers might have found the vessel that took the famous Portuguese explorer on his last voyage into the Indian Ocean.
The shipwreck lies close to Malindi in Kenya and has attracted the attention of many archaeologists. Although the ship was found in 2013, on a coral reef around 500 m off the coast of Kenya, it sank 500 years ago and could be Vasco da Gama’s ship, Sao Jorge.
Scholars from the University of Coimbra, the National Museum of Kenya and the Bergen Maritime Museum are working to ascertain the ship’s identity.
The shipwreck has yielded many artefacts and the findings were published in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology. Prominent artefacts found in the wreck include elephant tusks and copper ingots and timbers from its hull.
Vasco da Gama took a pioneering route from Europe into the Indian Ocean and was the first person to find a sea route which linked Europe and Africa. He was also the first to sail around the Cape of Good Hope on the southernmost tip of Africa which led to the beginning of Portuguese trade in the Indian Ocean.
Throughout his life, Vasco da Gama took four journeys in the Indian Ocean, the last in 1524 which had an armada of 20 vessels, including Sao Jorge.
The Sao Jorge sank later in 1524 before the death of Da Gama. Per researchers, it is one of the earliest shipwrecks in the Indian Ocean.
The researchers stated that the provisional dates of the artefacts point to the ship on a journey to India.
To confirm if this is really Da Gama’s ship, the archaeologists will perform surveys of the coral reefs nearby stretching 25 km from Malindi to Ras Ngomeni Cape.
There are many Portuguese shipwrecks in and around Malindi. In the 1500s, the Portuguese began constructing galleons which could be used in war and exploration of the Oceans. They have 3 or 4 masts and could be equipped with artillery. The design was copied from Europe and changed the course of European Expansion.
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