It’s happening. 115,327 days after the San Jose Spanish galleon ship sunk off the coast of Colombia the wheels are in motion to raise the ship and recover the “most valuable treasure that has been found in the history of humanity” according to former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. The

The “holy grail of shipwrecks” with $20 billion in treasure on board, the Spanish galleon San Jose, will be raised from the sea floor more than three centuries after it was sunk. The Spanish galleon San Jose was sunk on June 8, 1708 along with 600 members of its crew off the coast of Colombia

The Civil War was a four-year affair that required the armies on both sides of the conflict to shell out a ton of cash in their quest for victory before the Union ultimately prevailed over the Confederacy. In the waning days of the Civil War, Jefferson Davis and his cronies supposedly fled

Getty Image / Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge Recently, a 107-year-old ship named the Endurance was discovered off the coast of Antarctica The ship belonged to Ernest Shackleton and his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition crew Many are now pointing out how the ship

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