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

The Brother Jonathan maritime disaster was the West Coast’s Titanic. The sidewheel paddle steamship carried goods, gold, and passengers between San Francisco, Portland, and Vancouver. In 1865, it sank into the Pacific, taking over 200

Watch the video/read the full article on Local 10 News:https://www.local10.com/news/local/2026/06/11/keys-treasure-hunters-find-silver-bar-from-300-year-old-shipwreck/ MONROE COUNTY, Fla. — A discovery not seen in nearly 30 years came to shore in the Florida Keys on Thursday: a 22-pound silver bar

Image: Workers recovered this cannon from the Savannah River in 2022. Savannah District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 The centuries-old artifacts emerged from the riverbed between 2021 and 2022.

Episode 3 of Mystery of the Pirate King’s Treasure is now live at Wreckwatch TV on YouTube. Storms, Blackbeard’s ghost, the real Aquaman, and diving a true Pirates of the Caribbean shipwreck. Episode 2: Hunting Henry

After 27 years, it happened again! Mel Fisher’s Shipwreck Expeditions recovered a 22.5-pound silver bar from the Nuestra Señora de Atocha wreck site off the Florida Keys—the first silver bar recovered from the site since

The history of currency in the United States offers a fascinating journey through cultural changes, economic innovation, and shifting monetary policies. Between the colonial era and the mid-20th century, numerous forms of currency emerged that

In the Fall of 2025, the New Providence Pirates Expedition & Wreckwatch TV splashed down in the Bahamas to dive in search of elusive pirate wrecks. The discoveries introduced in this issue of Wreckwatch magazine

Wreckwatch magazine is super excited to share the first episodes of their Wreckwatch TV series, Mystery of the Pirate King’s Treasure. Filmed on land and sea at New Providence Island, the Bahamas, with the first-ever

Image: The dive is the first of its kind to unearth the hidden wrecks. Credit: Wreckwatch TV By Leah Renz The first shipwrecks attacked by the real pirates of the Caribbean have been discovered by a

Image: A fragment bearing an inscription is photographed among artifacts discovered during excavations outside Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, Monday, June 1, 2026. AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga Wilting in the summer sun, a line of tourists waits