Shipwrecks, Treasure, Hoards, and Finds From Around the World

In the final episode of Mystery of the Pirate King’s Treasure, the Wreckwatch team gets up close and personal with a burned wooden hull and cargo of tobacco pipes decorated with the armsInsignia of a

Image: Parts of the well-preserved Chinese porcelain cargo on the seabed | ©Image Credit: Espen Saastad / Flash Studio via Riksantikvaren Shipwreck found in Norway is an untouched time capsule By Stefan Milovanovic A watch

What’s better than watching a movie where the protagonist is looking for treasure? Whether it’s buried pirate gold or a long-forgotten artifact, following the hero as they overcome all the obstacles between them and their

Photo Credit: Trevor J. Wallace By Brooklyn Smith Off Menorca, Spain, archaeologists are reevaluating three medieval shipwrecks that together offer an unusually vivid look at life in the 1200s, including a Christian reliquary recovered from

By Andrea Margolis Treasure hunters in Florida recently uncovered a 22.5-pound silver bar from a legendary shipwreck — the first of its kind recovered in nearly three decades. Divers with Mel Fisher’s Shipwreck Expeditions, working from the salvage vessel

Photo Credit: Jose Antonio Moya By Ray Brennan Spain has recovered Ses Fontanelles from the Bay of Palma near Mallorca after months of careful underwater work, in what AS USA said is the first time

Image: Archaeologists say a newly discovered shipwreck off Norway’s southeastern coast contains one of the best-preserved cargoes ever found in Northern Europe. (Espen Saastad og Norsk Maritimt Museum; Sindre Kinnerød Flash Studio AS) Undamaged Chinese

Meteorological tsunamis likely sank the 13th-century trading vessels, whose cargo included objects from both Christian kingdoms and Moorish communities on the Iberian Peninsula Image: Archaeologist Gino Caspari holds an iron artifact recovered from one of

Image: Dennis Parada, right, and son Kem Parada stand at the site of the FBI’s dig for Civil War-era gold in Sept, 2018, in Dents Run, Pennsylvania. The FBI says it found nothing, but the

Image: Kano Takahashi, Unsplash Sunken warships usually bring to mind cannons, anchors, and broken hulls. Yet some discoveries feel far more personal. Divers have found tiny dice, polished marble, old tableware, and a bell that took