Half a millennium after it vanished, a 500-year treasure ship has surfaced from beneath the sands of the Namib, its timbers and cargo revealing a frozen moment from the age of global empires. What ...

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 ...

The majority of shipwrecks from the era of the Great Discoveries now lie at the bottom of the ocean abyss or in shallow bays.

The 1715 Treasure Fleet, one of Spain’s famed Plate Fleets, has sat shipwrecked off the coast of Florida for over 300 years. This summer, a certified salvage company maneuvered to the fleet and pulled ...

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, ...