The 150-foot-long Spanish galleon ship was sunk by British warships in 1708 Researchers believe they have uncovered coins from a 317-year-old shipwreck, which sank in 1708, containing treasure thought ...

Centuries-old coins have been found by researchers looking into the San José shipwreck, thought to be located in the Colombian Caribbean Sea The wreckage is reportedly worth approximately $17 billion ...

These gold coins haven’t glittered in more than 300 years. At 600 meters down, sunlight never reaches the seabed. Here, in the cold black stillness off Colombia’s coast, history lingers in silence.

For the past three centuries, billions of dollars’ worth of gold, silver, and precious stones have lain lost on the floor of the Caribbean Sea. The cargo was being transported from Peru to the Iberian ...

The San Jose was a marvel of 17th century technology. The Spanish galleon weighed more than a thousand tons, was made of wood reinforced with iron, and featured three masts and 64 cannons. In its ...

In 1708, the British sank a Spanish galleon—a large war and/or merchant ship used from the 15th through the 17th centuries—off the coast of Colombia. Over three centuries later, its cargo of gold ...

Crowds of people have flocked to Liverpool's waterfront to catch a glimpse of a replica 17th Century Spanish galleon. The Galeón Andalucia is a reproduction of the kind of vessel used for maritime ...

Londoners were met with a rare sight this week as the replica of a 15th century Spanish galleon ship was seen sailing up the River Thames on its tour of the UK. The Galeon Andalucia had previously ...

The treasure, discovered by researchers, is thought to be from the Spanish galleon ship San José, which was sunk by British warships in 1708 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

NEW YORK (AP) — A solid gold chain and an intricate gold-and-enamel spoon are among items pulled from the wreckage of a 400-year-old Spanish galleon that will be auctioned off next month. Nuestra ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. A decade ago, the Colombian government announced the discovery of what was ...

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