A new book by author Julian Sancton explores the lengthy quest to find the Spanish galleon—and the political firestorm that ...

More than a decade after it was found, a centuries-old Spanish treasure ship worth billions remains nearly untouched on the ...

Over 10 years after its initial discovery, “the greatest sunken treasure in the history of humanity” sits untouched at the ...

Cartagena's most famous relic is arguably a 300-year-old ship sitting two-thirds of a mile underwater—and at the center of a ...

The past has a remarkable habit of refusing to stay in the shadows. Every year, surprise findings and archaeological ...

Saab UK’s Seaeye Lynx subsea vehicle played a critical role in the survey and documentation of the 18th-century galleon San ...

Saab Seaeye’s Lynx platform is widely used internationally for subsea inspection and survey tasks, particularly in demanding offshore and deep-water environments. Its deployment at the San José site ...

Recent discoveries have renewed archaeologists’ concerns that a shipwreck-salvage company has exclusive rights to artefacts aboard a sunken 1715 fleet ...

The San José carried eight tons of gold, and even more silver, earmarked to fund Spain’s European wars. That cargo set a ...