NEW EXHIBIT HIGHLIGHTS EARLY 1800s SHIPWRECK OFF LOUISIANA GULF COAST

BATON ROUGE, La. – The Louisiana Division of Archaeology and the Capitol Park Museum announce the opening of a new exhibit – The Mardi Gras Shipwreck. In 2007, a team of archaeologists and researchers mapped, recovered, and analyzed more than 1,000 artifacts from an underwater archaeological site in the Gulf of Mexico. While the artifacts and research indicate the ship sank in the early 1800s, the name of the ship and its crewmembers remain unknown. It's referred to as the Mardi Gras ...more...