These legendary artifacts vanished from the historical record, yet their ghosts still haunt the imagination, fueling billion-dollar hunts across oceans and centuries. Throughout history, objects have ...

In 2008, miners sifting through the sands of Namibia’s Sperrgebiet — a restricted diamond mining zone near the Skeleton Coast — stumbled upon what looked like wooden beams and rusted metal. What they ...

FOUNTAIN • The little block of a building with barred windows beside a used car lot gives no indication of the treasures kept inside. “We’ve still gotta redo the sign out front,” says Bob DeWitt, ...

Authorities have identified at least four ‘gold bar scam’ cases in which Oregon victims lost tens or hundreds of thousands of ...

If you're looking for a coastal treasure hunt, you've come to the right place in Oregon, where glass floats are found on a ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Twenty-three workers were rescued Wednesday after spending 43 hours trapped in a collapsed underground gold mine in northern Colombia. The miners were met with applause as they ...

Hidden beneath the turquoise waters off a stretch of Florida known as the “Treasure Coast,” a team of divers from a shipwreck salvage company have uncovered exactly that — a load of long-lost Spanish ...

The hundreds of silver coins were found over the summer on a shipwreck that is believed to have been part of a lost fleet of up to a dozen Spanish treasure ships known today as the 1715 Fleet, ...

A lost 3,000-year-old bronze hoard was discovered in Scotland ahead of a development project. Experts analyzed ornamental bracelets that were part of the find and confirmed high craftsmanship designed ...