Rare find: sealed packages from a once hijacked ship discovered. Experts have now located and opened parts of the loot in an archive in London.
"It was like Christmas because you don't really know what's in it beforehand," said historian Lucas Haasis. The work is part of the Oldenburg “Prize Papers” project, which is funded by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. Since 2018, scientists have been examining around 500,000 documents in the National Archives in London, which are still stored today.