Celebrate legendary Florida Keys treasure diver Art McKee’s birthday with guided tours at the History of Diving Museum in ...

Images of the sunken San José— reduced after three centuries to a flattened field of cannon and other artifacts — show gold ...

Gold and silver coins worth about $1 million are found in Florida waters from Spanish ships that sank in a 1715 hurricane while returning from the New World.

Sunken finds in the South China Sea testify to rich trade networks used over hundreds of years. The sea routes brought ...

Considered the world’s richest shipwreck, the San Jose was found off the coast of Colombia in 2015. New research into the gold coins now scattered on the ocean floor offered insights into the ...

The discovery was part of a "vast fortune carried by the fleet, which was transporting New World riches back to Spain," the ...

Discover the National Marine Sanctuary System — 18 underwater parks protecting coral reefs, shipwrecks, whales, and America’s ...

From royal jewels to vanished cities, uncover 20 of history’s most mysterious treasures still waiting to be found.

(CNN) — New research revealing details of gold coins found aboard a shipwreck off Colombia provides further evidence that the vessel was the San José galleon, a 300-year-old Spanish warship believed ...

A shipwreck thought to contain one of the most valuable lost treasures in history has been confirmed by researchers, sparking a multi-billion-dollar legal fight over its ownership. The Spanish galleon ...

Coins known as cobs in the San José galleon shipwreck in the Colombian Caribbean - Daniela Vargas Ariza, Antonio Jaramillo Arango, Jesús Alberto Aldana Mendoza, Carlos Del Cairo Hurtado, Juan David ...