In June 1708, the 62-gun Spanish galleon San José, carrying treasure from South America to Europe, was sunk by British ...

In Namibia’s remote Sperrgebiet—a name that translates from German as “forbidden zone”—miners looking for diamonds stumbled ...

Treasures lost to time still fascinate the world and spark curiosity among adventurers and history lovers alike. In this ...

In an ancient Greek city on Turkey’s Aegean coast, archaeologists have uncovered a small clay pot filled with Persian gold coins buried about 2,400 years ago. The hidden stash looks like royal pay for ...

For decades, the story of the Nuestra Señora del Pilar has been told as a failed treasure hunt, millions in lost silver, ...

The artefact is a gold cape, discovered in 1833 at Bryn yr Ellyllon in Mold and later recognised as one of the most important Bronze Age objects ever found in Britain. Now loaned from the British ...

Man’s “gold nugget” find in Australia turns out to be a 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite, offering rare clues to the early ...

A 3,000-year-old gold mining operation uncovered in Egypt’s Sukari Mountains reveals hidden secrets about the ancient world.

A Portuguese ship from 1533 was found buried in Namibia's Namib Desert in 2008. It contained over 2,000 gold coins, ivory, ...

Artifacts from the Spanish treasure galleon Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Zaragosa y Santiago, which sank in the lagoon near ...

Archaeologists uncover a rare Roman pyre burial in France, revealing gold treasures and a ring engraved with a mysterious ...

Researchers recovered coins, a cannon, and more from the wreck, which is believed to hold billions of dollars’ worth of gold ...