Its dollar value is anyone's guess, but none of its treasures have fired the imaginations of the world's archaeologists as much as the wreck itself: a Portuguese East Indiaman from the 1530s ...

A mining firm uncovered an epic lost shipwreck in the middle of an African desert, containing a multi-million-pound treasure haul. The vessel, a Portuguese ship called The Bom Jesus, dates back ...

The wreck found near the southernmost part of the Kenyan coast is the remnants of the galleon São Jorge—a Portuguese ship believed to have sunk during famed explorer Vasco da Gama’s final voyage.

which excavated the wreck (see Explore the Shipwreck). A Spanish galleon similar to the Nuestra Señora de Atocha. In many other cases of disputed ownership, however, only protracted and costly ...

Nearly 500 years after it set sail, a shipwreck was discovered in an African desert. Remarkably, it was still intact, as it ...