Mensun Bound

March 10, 2024
Anthropologist

Quick Facts

Date Of Birth Feb 4, 1953(1953-02-04)
Age 71
Country Falkland Islands
Horoscope Aquarius

Mensun Bound Biography

Birthday Feb 4
Birth Year 1953
Place Of Birth Stanley

Mensun Bound is one of the most popular and richest Anthropologist who was born on February 4, 1953 in Stanley, Stanley, United Kingdom. As of June 1, 2023, Mensun has a net worth approximately $5 Million. Bound became more involved in deep-ocean archaeology. In 2014–15, he led a search for the Imperial German East Asia Squadron, sunk during the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914, and since then in AUV and ROV surveys in depths up to 6000 m. He eventually located the squadron’s flagship, SMS Scharnhorst, in April 2019, 105 years after her sinking.

Bound’s work has been the focus of many documentaries in England, Italy and the US, including an award-winning, four-part series entitled Lost Ships by the Discovery Channel, which covered the Agamemnon, the Hoi An wreck, the Graf Spee and the Mahdia ship. The BBC has made several documentaries on Bound’s work including Queen Elizabeth’s Lost Guns, about the recovery, replication and test-firing of an Elizabethan iron cannon from the Alderney wreck. Lost Ships – The Hunt for the Kaiser’s Superfleet, produced by TVT Productions for Smithsonian Channel, covers Bound’s search for the lost fleet from the Battle of the Falklands in 1914

Mensun Bound (born 1953) is a British maritime archaeologist born in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. He is best known for directing the excavation of the Etruscan 6th-century BC shipwreck off Giglio Island, Italy, the oldest known shipwreck of the Archaic era, and the Hoi An Cargo which revolutionized our understanding of Ming-Vietnamese porcelain from Vietnam’s art-historical Golden Age.

Bound’s student experience as an archaeologist was on land, where he worked on Roman villa sites outside Rome and various sites in the English Midlands. Bound’s underwater archaeological career began in 1979 when he worked for George Bass of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology in Texas on sites off the coast of Turkey. This was followed by the Madrague de Giens shipwreck off the South of France and the Mary Rose in England.

Mensun Bound Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Anthropologist
House Living in own house.

Mensun is one of the richest Anthropologist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mensun Bound 's net worth $5 Million.

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Mensun Ranked on the list of most popular Anthropologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Mensun Bound celebrates birthday on February 4 of every year.

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