The San Jose was a marvel of 17th century technology. The Spanish galleon weighed more than a thousand tons, was made of wood ...

The Spanish galleon weighed more than a thousand ... what they believed to be the San Jose's wreckage. The treasure on board this ship could be worth billions of dollars. But who owns it?

Underwater artifacts make up a small proportion of colonial-era heritage, but as their number increases, the time is ripe for ...

For centuries, the Portuguese coast has hidden a graveyard of lost ships, many still carrying their gold, silver, and untold ...

For its latest high jewellery collection, Van Cleef & Arpels drew inspiration from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel, Treasure Island.

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West, shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the shipwreck and ...

The ship was pretty tempting for treasure hunters, but none found the lost haul until over a century later, when a team led by research scientist Tommy Gregory Thompson tracked it down in 1988 ...

The training ship "Juan Sebastián de Elcano" A-71 is one of the most famous units of the Spanish Navy worldwide. "Unlike most units of the Navy, this ship - which is a brigantine-schooner sailboat - ...

A former deep-sea treasure hunter who has served nearly a decade in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of missing gold coins has had that term ended by a federal judge in Ohio ...