Everybody loves a good treasure hunting story... as long as it doesn't happen in real life, under current international legislation. The discovery of the San José galleon and plans to have it ...

Despite being buried in the dark depths of the Caribbean Sea for the past 300 years, the San José galleon has still managed to bring international tensions to the surface. First found in 2015 by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This undated photo taken by Colombia's Anthropology and History Institute and distributed by Colombia's Ministry of Culture ...

Colombia’s government has announced it will attempt to raise objects from the San Jose galleon, a Spanish warship that sank ...

It’s a “titanic” treasure trove. A veritable “Holy Grail” shipwreck said to be worth billions could be exhumed from the depths of Colombia as early as next month, sparking a veritable gold rush in ...

Divers working a Spanish galleon wreck site in the Florida Keys pulled up a roughly 22.5-pound silver bar valued at an ...

In a twist of fate that echoes the colonial past, members of three South American indigenous communities are staking their claim to a share of the treasure from a Spanish galleon that sank off the ...

More than three centuries after the legendary San Jose galleon sank off the coast of Colombia while laden with gold, silver and emeralds, the nation has officially approved a plan to recover the wreck ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A cannon, three coins and a porcelain cup were among the first objects Colombian scientists recovered from the depths of the Caribbean Sea where the mythical Spanish galleon San ...

BOGOTA, ColombiaBOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s government announced plans Friday for a deep-water expedition to explore the mythical galleon San José, sunk in the 18th century in the country’s northern ...