Rumors of a ship lodged beneath layers of desert sand have captivated imaginations in the Imperial Valley and beyond. It is ...

Imagine stumbling across a shipwreck… in the middle of a desert! Sounds impossible, right? But that’s exactly what happened with the long-lost Bom Jesus, a 500-year-old treasure ship that vanished off ...

Lost treasure isn’t just the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters and adventure novels. Around the world, real fortunes in gold, jewels, and priceless artifacts have vanished into history, leaving behind ...

Archaeologists from the Center for Historic Shipwreck Preservation discovered a 1721 shipwreck off the coast of Madagascar. The Portuguese ship was overtaken by pirates in a known piracy region. The ...

The hundreds of silver coins were found over the summer on a shipwreck that is believed to have been part of a lost fleet of up to a dozen Spanish treasure ships known today as the 1715 Fleet, ...

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