Construction on the Varberg Tunnel in Sweden—part of a modern railway project—has resulted in an unexpected bounty of ...

The artifacts are the first treasures to be recovered from the wreckage of the San José, a Spanish galleon that was sunk by ...

Colombia has recovered the first artifacts from San José galleon, also known as the legendary "Holy Grail of shipwrecks." It ...

Dubbed the "holy grail of shipwrecks," the ship is believed to hold 11 million gold and silver coins, emeralds and other precious cargo.

The San Jose, an 18th-century Spanish galleon, is believed contain vast amounts of cold coins, jewels and other treasures. | ...

A fatal shipwreck lost for 129 years off the Algoma shore in Kewaunee County recently was named to the State Register of Historic Places while an already-registered historic place in Door County was ...

In the last several months, two more-than-a-century-old shipwrecks were discovered in the Great Lakes - the SS James Carruthers in Lake Huron, one of the largest missing ships in the region, and the ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen about the record number of shipwreck discoveries in the Great Lakes in recent years, including two just in the last several months.