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Katie Hitchcock-Smith

Katie Hitchcock-Smith

Katie Hitchcock-Smith is a freelance writer, photographer and explorer who has been published in National Geographic and the Boston Globe, among other publications.

Archaeologist Gino Caspari holds an iron artifact recovered from one of the Menorca shipwrecks.

Take an Exclusive Look at Three Newly Discovered Medieval Shipwrecks in Menorca’s ‘Cove of Mysteries’

Meteorological tsunamis likely sank the 13th-century trading vessels, whose cargo included objects from both Christian kingdoms and Moorish communities on the Iberian Peninsula