The world’s most coveted shipwreck is finally giving up its secrets. After centuries on the Caribbean seabed, the Spanish ...

Colombia has retrieved its first artefacts from the San José shipwreck, regarded as the 'holy grail of shipwrecks,' revealing historical treasures and sparking renewed interest in underwater cultural ...

Included in the haul is a cannon, two porcelain cups, and three gold and bronze coins.

Recently the Guam Cultural Repository, which is located on the campus of the University of Guam, officially became a part of ...

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

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

Chilean navy ships like these, under Lord Thomas Cochrane, would attack San José del Cabo in 1822. (Public Domain) In early 1565, five ships commanded by Miguel López de Legazpi and navigated along a ...

Artifacts from the Spanish treasure galleon Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Zaragosa y Santiago, which sank in the lagoon near Cocos Island in June 1690, are now at the Guam ...

Famed in 1708, Storyful states that the ship’s cargo was set to be transported to Spain to aid King Philip V in financing the War of the Spanish Succession, when the galleon was attacked by a British ...

The first artefacts have been recovered from the shipwreck of the San Jose Galleon, a Spanish ship which sank over 300 years ago. The extracts were made by Colombian naval vessels, and included a ...

An 18th century Spanish galleon dubbed the "holy grail of shipwrecks" for its storied cache of 11 million gold and silver coins - worth an estimated $20bn (£16bn) - has yielded its first treasures.

The first items from an ancient treasure trove onboard the "holy grail of shipwrecks" have been discovered by Colombian scientists. The shipwreck is a Spanish galleon named the San José which sank in ...