Divers Explored a 300-Year-Old Shipwreck—and Found Treasure Worth $1 Million

The 1715 Spanish wreck off the coast of Florida contained a hoard of real de plata coins valued at over $1 million.
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Divers Recover More Than $1 Million Worth of Gold and Silver Coins From 310-Year-Old ‘Treasure Fleet’ Shipwrecks

The vessels sank in a violent hurricane off the coast of Florida in July 1715, when they were traveling from Cuba to Spain ...

Elusive shipwreck found in Lake Michigan over 100 years after sinking

Researchers discovered a 19th century “ghost ship” in Lake Michigan. The missing clue to the wreck’s location was hiding in ...

Archaeologists Dove to the Bottom of the Mediterranean—and Found a 2,500-Year-Old Shipwreck

Underwater archaeologists dug under 20 feet of sand and rock off the coast of Sicily and found a 2,500-year-old shipwreck.

Archaeologists Recover 2,000-Year-Old Roman Navy Ship

Archaeologists have recovered a remarkably well-preserved Roman navy ship dating back 2,000 years from Croatia's Sukošan region.
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Remarkable 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck discovered

A team of researchers have been uncovering a remarkably well-preserved shipwreck, which is thought to be around 2,000 years old, in Barbir Bay near Sukošan in Croatia. Archaeologists from the ...

A more than 1,000-year-old Viking ship goes on a very short, final voyage

It took 10 years of work to prepare a Viking longship for a trip no longer than a football field. How it got to that spot ...
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'Ghost ship' found in Lake Michigan over 100 years after sinking

A "ghost ship" that sank in Lake Michigan nearly 140 years ago and eluded several search efforts over the past five decades has been found, according to researchers with the Wisconsin Underwater ...