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

By Mumbai Mirror The archaeologists excavating the sunken Queen Annes Revenge for 10 years found a gilded sword hilt that may have belonged to Blackbeard, the infamous 18th century pirate.National Geographic published photos released by

By Wyatt Fischer A failed 1559 Spanish colony off Pensacola, Florida, left colonial-era ships on the bottom of the ocean after a hurricane swept through the area. Those ships remained undiscovered for over 400 years,

Image: From left, Sean Browne, head of investor relations with Treasure Salvors Inc., Captain Drake Nicholas and lead diver Blake Baker show off a 22-pound silver bar recovered from the 1622 wreck of the Nuestra

Image: Photogrammetry of the shipwreck after removal of the ballast stones and the inner planking. A wreck from the Swedish ship barrier of 1715 was recovered before construction works for a pipeline. Trident Archäologie was

Image: A photo-based map of the wreck pieces and a magnetic map. Credit: M. Grabowski 2023 / LaKD M-V in Grabowski et al. 2026 by Sandee Oster In 2023, in preparation for the construction of

Image: Pirate Ship in Pursuit of Merchant Vessel with Booty | Bettmann/GettyImages The strange, salty, and sometimes surprising foods pirates survived on at sea. By Paul Anthony Jones During the Age of Sail, it might

Image: Colombia is approaching one of the most critical legal confrontations in its modern history, over the San Jose Galleon, at stake roughly $20 billion USD. Credit: SebastianGalvis – CC-BY-4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. By Luis

Image: Treasure hunters searching the Nuestra Señora de Atocha shipwreck off the Florida Keys recently recovered a 55-pound copper ingot. (Mel Fisher’s Shipwreck Treasures) Treasure hunter follows trail of coins to massive shipwreck find, now

Photo: Saudi treasure mystery (Pic Credit: AI) A 1944 ship carrying millions of Saudi silver riyals sank after a German submarine attack. Decades later, over one million coins were recovered, while much remains underwater. Written

By AJ McDougall After Jennifer Sellitti lost her partner Joe Mazraani, she thought everything was over. Then she inherited his ship After Joe died, Jennifer Sellitti felt as though she were living underwater. Other people