GRANDPARENTS who unwittingly held onto and tried to sell gold bars that had been previously stolen from an 18th-century ...

And gold, of course, fistfuls of gold ... It is by far the oldest shipwreck ever found on the coast of sub-Saharan Africa, and the richest. Its dollar value is anyone's guess, but none of its ...

A mining firm uncovered an epic lost shipwreck in the middle of an African ... including thousands of rare and valuable gold coins, as well as nearly 2,000 copper ingots. More than 100 elephant ...

In 1892, a gale overtook the ship Western Reserve, causing it to sink within a matter of minutes with only one of the 28 aboard at the time surviving. The ship was lost to Lake Superior until 2024.

Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of one of the first steel cargo ships to travel the Great Lakes.

A gold tobacco box from the 1804 shipwreck Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes in Mardid in 2012.Credit: AP, digitally tinted “At the very least, the flag state itself has an interest in the cargo ...

A gold tobacco box from the 1804 shipwreck Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes in Mardid in 2012.Credit: AP, digitally tinted “At the very least, the flag state itself has an interest in the cargo ...