From shipwrecks found in the desert, to a treasure worth half a billion smackers; Here are 10 amazing sunken treasures!



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Whydah Gally (wie-dah)

Alexandria

SS City of Cairo

Booty Call

Byzantine Treasure
In 2015, the wreck of a large Byzantine ship thought to be at least 1,000 years old was discovered in the Black Sea on the Crimean Peninsula. Divers found hundreds of amphora (AM-for-uh) measuring around 2.5 feet high and nearly 2 feet long … which are thought to have been carried on the vessel. You can see images of those containers in this image taken from a video posted to YouTube by Zvezda (ah-VEZ-dah), a Russian TV network … even after all this time, the containers appear mostly intact. The ancient jars are still sealed with wax … and are thought to contain oil or wine. Researchers think the sunken vessel may have been headed to the Crimean Peninsula from Constantinople … during the Middle Ages, the region was part of the Byzantine empire and had constant contact with Mediterranean ports. Experts are calling the the ship one of the Black Sea’s top underwater archaeological discoveries of the past century.

Deep Sea Desert Discovery
You normally think of sunken treasure being found deep in the water. But here’s a case where treasure was found aboard a ship that was deep in the Namibian desert! Diamond miners in Africa were draining a manmade saltwater lake by the Skeleton Coast. That’s when they noticed bits and pieces of wood and metal along the beach … which led to the discovery of a 500 year old shipwreck that was hidden under the sand. The Bom Jesus (bome-jay-ZOOSE, Good Jesus) was a Portuguese vessel the was enroute from Lisbon to India when it -- along with the entire crew -- disappeared. The cargo included skeletons, ivory tusks from West Africa, swords and knives … and gold and silver coins worth more than $11 million dollars. Located in 2016, this is considered one of the most important shipwreck finds ever.

Black Swan Project
It sounds kind of like a covert military operation … and that’s too far wrong. Black Swan Project is the codename Odyssey Marine Exploration gave to an operation to recover what is thought to be the richest treasure of any shipwreck … valued at around half a billion dollars ($500,000,000)! After keeping their efforts undercover, the deepwater salvage outfit attracted attention when it flew some 17 tons of gold and silver coins from Gibraltar to an undisclosed location in the US. It turned out that they had discovered the wreck of the ‘Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes’ … a Spanish naval frigate which sank in 1804 … off the southern coast of Portugal. The Spanish Government stepped in to assert its claim to the loot … and after years of legal wrangling, US courts decided in favor of Spain. All those coins and cargo were returned to their country of origin, where they’ve been put on display at museums.

San Jose Shipwreck
The San Jose was a Spanish galleon that was estimated to be carrying gold and precious jewels worth more than $10 million dollars. It was sunk by the Royal Navy off the coast of Colombia in 1708 as it was carrying the cargo to Spain to finance their war of succession against Britain … during which an estimated 600 people died After decades of searching, the wreck was discovered off the coast of Cartagena in 2015 … and that booty is now estimated to be worth around $1.5 billion dollars! While none of the treasure has yet been recovered, pictures of the wreck were taken by a deep-sea camera. Sonar images depict bronze cannons that were custom made for the vessel, along with armaments, ceramic works and other artifacts. The San Jose could represent the most valuable sunken treasure ever discovered … but exactly who gets how much of the booty is still undetermined. The find has legal entanglements that have yet to be worked out. Sea Search Armada, the US salvage company, says they’re entitled to a share … while Spain says ownership of the treasure is unclear. But Colombia says the San Jose is all theirs … an opinion backed up by the decision of a US court in 2011!

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