In the 16th and 17th centuries, Europeans believed that somewhere in the New World there was a place of immense wealth known as El Dorado. Their searches for this treasure wasted countless lives ...

At the beginning of World War II, a trove of royal treasure from the 16th century was hidden beneath the Vilnius Cathedral in ...

Some of those wrecks could be of immense historical significance and even contain monetary treasure. The Holy Grail of shipwrecks said to be the 'richest vessel ever lost at sea', is a large ...