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This Dress survived for more than 3 centuries at the bottom of the sea

25/03/2023 02:44 PM | Click to read full article

A merchant ship — carrying goods, passengers and a highly expensive silk satin dress that will centuries later become a topic of fascination — sinks off the Dutch island of Texel. The divers also found a different, silver dress, book covers and what appeared to be 17th-century women’s toiletries, among other things. But despite the surge of interest, the mystery of the silk dress has not been solved.

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