I'll second that recommendation for The Last Emperor of Mexico. Was a good book covering the events of a little known event in Mexican history and did a good job at it.

Mexico has a pretty interesting, messed up, and bloody history. From the war of independence from Spain, where they have a succession of presidents and dictators who get overthrown and executed on a somewhat regular basis. One of the heroes of the war of independence declares himself emperor, gets overthrown, and put before a firing squad. Other presidents get executed by their opposition, like Guerrero who is hanged.

You've got the US meddling in affairs and spurring revolution in Texas and eventually warring with Mexico and taking a good chunk of territory. Look up the books So Far From God by John Eisenhower for a good American perspective and A Glorious Defeat by Timothy Henderson for the Mexican side. After that is civil war where the liberal opposition wins, and then the conservatives get European intervention for the second Mexican Empire.

Porfirio Diaz gets power for 35 years after all this and has relative stability, but he does rule with absolute authority, and caters to the elite of the country and soliciting massive foreign investment. What's kind of ridiculous is that he triggers the Mexican revolution thanks to the Creelman interview, where he tells an American journalist he will not run for reelection. That gets everyone excited and getting political parties going, until Diaz changes his mind. That causes everything to boil over into revolution.

It's interesting stuff.

Assuming you could meet building codes, probably closer to a minimum 15k factoring in electrical, HVAC, insulation, and plumbing. That's builder cost, so buyers would be looking at 25-30k purchase price.

That sounds awesome! I wonder how cheap it would be to build 3D printed tiny houses made of plastic. $500/each ?

Does anyone in the UK have anymore info on this?.. I'd love have a look for myself. Got some spots in Yorkshire in mind...

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It’s fascinating! What books would you recommend for someone wanting to learn more about the construction of and life on 15-16th century ships?

It’s just a point of reference dude it’s not a big deal

It was the Assyrian king Sargon II (721–705 BCE), who reprimanded one of his officials for wanting to write to him in Aramaic, which was written alphabetically on parchment rather than with cuneiform on clay tablets like Akkadian.

>[As to what you wrote]: "There are informers [... to the king] and coming to his presence; if it is acceptable to the king, let me write and send my messages to the king on Aram[aic] parchment sheets" — why would you not write and send me messages in Akkadian? Really, the message which you write in it must be drawn up in this very manner — this is a fixed regulation!

This is how they found countless undiscovered henges and iron age forts in England. They lidar scanned the landscape and gave the public access to the files. The power of hundreds of bored turned tenacious pensioners did the rest.

I wish I had the disposable income to finance historians with this exact stuff. 15-16th century ships are such a passion of mine it's too bad there's so little physical evidence for how they were made.

> How many 15th century British shipbuilders, sailors, and merchants do you think are watching this? My guess is zero.

Mary Rose collection in shambles

How many 15th century British shipbuilders, sailors, and merchants do you think are watching this? My guess is zero.

How many 21st century people who grow up hearing the adage 'In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue'? My guess is very many.

Came to the comments to see this. It makes no sense to refer to the oldest British shipwreck found to date "as years before Columbus." It's just an America thing. CBS knows that is as far back as their viewer base can think. Why would 15th century British shipbuilders, sailors, and merchants care about an Italian explorer who hasn't yet found the thing "no one" knew existed?

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Only it's so very much not the biggest 3D puzzle. The reconstruction of Angkor Wat in Cambodia is orders of magnitude larger and more complex.

Because it's an identifiable one. The same reason things are compared to Olympic swimming pool and football fields.

Digitize it and crowdsource. The internet would have this done in a week

Saying it's older than XXXXX ship doesn't provide a point of context. This was written for a US audience, so using the Columbus landings is a relevant point in time that everyone knows.

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Yeah archaeologists really shouldn't bother trying to figure things out when there are older examples out there. ^^^/s

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It's just an interesting point of reference, just because there are other ships that old or older doesn't mean it isn't cool

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