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

New historical research reconstructs the missing financial story behind the RMS Republic, establishing what may be the GOAT—the Greatest of All Treasures. MIAMI, FL, UNITED STATES For more than a century, one of maritime history’s

Image: Screengrab from YouTube video By MI News Network A team of maritime historians has identified the surviving remains of the grand piano carried aboard RMS Titanic, more than a century after the instrument disappeared

Image: The identification of the Dom van Keulen followed decades of collaboration among divers, archaeologists and researchers from multiple institutions. (British Museum; Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust (MAST)) Researchers matched wreck to the Dom van Keulen,

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Image: picture alliance // Getty Images Lost crowns, funeral scepters, and medieval coins from the 1200s and 1400s resurfaced in Poland and Lithuania, rewriting what we know about Central European royalty. By Tim Newcomb Here’s

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