The artifacts are the first treasures to be recovered from the wreckage of the San José, a Spanish galleon that was sunk by ...
The San José was returning to Europe laden with extraordinary wealth meant to fund Spain's war efforts when British warships intercepted it near the fortified port city of Cartagena, Colombia. The ...
Called the “Holy Grail of shipwrecks,” the Spanish galleon San José sank in 1708 after it was attacked by an English navy ...
Dubbed the "holy grail of shipwrecks," the ship is believed to hold 11 million gold and silver coins, emeralds and other precious cargo.
Colombian authorities on Thursday showed off the first objects to be recovered from a treasure-crammed Spanish galleon that ...
S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, the return of a set of important belongings to the Lakota community and a baseball field resurrected ...
Dubbed the "holy grail of shipwrecks," the ship is believed to hold 11 million gold and silver coins, emeralds and other precious cargo.
Colombian scientists also retrieved three coins and a porcelain cup from the San José, which treasure hunters have come to ...
Amateur diver finds 50,000 coins from the 4th century hidden under the sand ...
In a discovery that challenges established narratives about contact patterns in the Bronze Age, a small and seemingly ...
The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...
# In 1847 the Boston Daily Advertiser states that “….Cazalet’s 1st Cordage….” or ship’s ropes are for sale at Ames Ingersoll & Co. on Central Wharf. An Irish woman named Marianne Amelia Cazalet was ...