Gold coins, diamonds, old champagne: Who gets to keep shipwreck treasure?
There are 8000 shipwrecks off Australia alone, many more still to be found. Yet stunning discoveries still happen. What does ...
I was jailed after a friend appeared on Antiques Roadshow – the gold he gave us was ‘cursed’
GRANDPARENTS who unwittingly held onto and tried to sell gold bars that had been previously stolen from an 18th-century ...
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500-Year-Old Shipwreck Discovered by Diamond Miners in Namibia Holds a Trove of Treasure
A 500-year-old Portuguese shipwreck found in Namibia’s desert holds a treasure trove of gold, copper, and history from the ...
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Shipwreck lost 500 years ago found in African desert with £10m treasure
A mining firm uncovered an epic lost shipwreck in the middle of an African ... including thousands of rare and valuable gold coins, as well as nearly 2,000 copper ingots. More than 100 elephant ...
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Shipwreck in the Forbidden Zone
And gold, of course, fistfuls of gold ... It is by far the oldest shipwreck ever found on the coast of sub-Saharan Africa, and the richest. Its dollar value is anyone's guess, but none of its ...
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500-Year-Old Shipwreck Discovered in Namibian Desert Yields Treasure Trove
The wreck contained approximately 2,000 gold coins and tens of thousands of pounds of copper ingots, all remarkably well-preserved. Additional artifacts included bronze bowls, cannons ...
WWII RMS Niagara shipwreck oil spill risk ignored despite $200m cleanup threat
It was sunk by Germany in the Hauraki Gulf but decades later its oil has never been retrieved. Maritime NZ had been ...
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The $200m threat lying beneath the Hauraki Gulf
In the 1940s and 1950s, operations were conducted to take 585 gold ingots owned by the UK treasury off the shipwreck – however, they did not remove any oil from it. As the wreck nears 85 years ...