Shipwrecks & Lost Treasures of the Seven Seas

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Nazi gold hunt ends, treasure hunter claims" - Feb. 2008

Search is on for WWII wreckage" - Feb. 2008

Indiana University Discovers 1699 Capt. Kidd Shipwreck - Dec. 2007

What lies beneath the "Devil's Dustbin" - Nov. 2007

A token of love that was lost at sea for 90 years - Nov. 2007

Sri Lanka a treasure trove of unexplored maritime history - Nov. 2007

Smaller stories fill Christmas Tree Ship's history - Nov. 2007

Treasure Hunters Break Scuba Rules for $50 Million - Nov. 2007

Baltic yields "perfect" shipwreck - Nov. 2007

Search for Bonhomme Richard continues - Nov. 2007

Booty Call - Nov. 2007

Sunken treasure "overvalued to lift shares of salvage firm" - Nov. 2007

DNA shows ancient ship carried olive oil, oregano - Nov. 2007

Levin backs shipwreck haven - Nov. 2007

Rough Seas May Stir Up Shipwreck Artifacts - Nov. 2007

"Archaeology" - Cask from the past - Nov. 2007

Shipwrecks, Sunken City Lure Divers to Turkey's Coast - Nov. 2007

WWII P-38 Fighter Discovered in Wales - Nov. 2007

UK researcher wants share of pieces of eight - Oct. 2007

Waters scoured, "Torrent" found off Danger Cape - Oct. 2007

Experts Find Shipwreck Evidence in River - Oct. 2007

Spain takes war with US firm over treasure out of sea - Oct. 2007

Divers take the plunge - Oct. 2007

Shipwreck artifacts etc... at Smythe - Oct. 2007

Wrecked ! Tragedy and the Southern Seas - Oct. 2007

Probing ancient shipwrecks with DNA - Oct. 2007

'It's hard for me to believe' - Oct. 2007

Mary Rose 'at risk of being lost' - Oct. 2007

Diving for Dollars - Sept. 2007

Traces of ancient shipwreck found in Adriatic - Sept. 2007

Mediaeval artefacts in German lake - Sept. 2007

Spain: Odyssey is playing a game - Sept. 2007

Recovering a bit of history - Sept. 2007

Coming to America: Who Was First ? - Sept. 2007

Exploration of the Nanhai No.1 - Sept. 2007

Cyprus to seek ancient shipwrecks - Sept. 2007

Silent secrets of the sea - Sept. 2007

Builder found Vikings washed up at pub - Sept. 2007

Hunt for underwater treasure - Sept. 2007

Spain claims sunken Inca treasure ship and so do the Incas - Sept. 2007

Mapping Turkey's sunken heritage - Sept. 2007

China's ancient sunken ship to be hoisted out of water - Sept. 2007

From the high seas to the Leith gallows - Aug. 2007

Coin clue to shipwreck legend ? - Aug. 2007

'Asian Atlantis' discovered - Aug. 2007

Titanic treasure up for auction - Aug. 2007

Treasure hunt sparks legal battle between Spain and finder - Aug. 2007

U-boat: council plans to put Nazi sub in maritime museum - Aug. 2007

Hunt for chile's first sub to proceed - Aug. 2007

$5m for Sydney search - Aug. 2007

Ancient wreck site 'sabotaged' - Aug. 2007

Stone Age Settlement Found Under English Channel - Aug. 2007

Fight on to save Stone Age Atlantis - Aug. 2007

Beneath the waves - Aug. 2007

Merrimack River's mystery shipwreck - Aug. 2007

Mary Rose fights the acid reign of bacteria - Aug. 2007

A legacy of ships: Shedding light on sunken treasures - July 2007

Sailors may have cruised the Med 14,000 years ago - July 2007

Octopus unearths 900-year-old hidden treasure - July 2007

Reclaiming mysteries of the deep - July 2007

Divers Find $200,000 Diamond Encrusted Wristwatch - July 2007

Rommel's sunken gold 'found' by British expert - July 2007

Archaeology - on land and sea - July 2007

Ninety years on, S.A salutes 600 men left to drown in Channel - July 2007

Jersey's underwater archaeology revealed at maritime museum - July 2007

Reading shipwreck ceramics - July 2007

China retrieves Ming porcela2in - July 2007

Pirate treasure in Maine ? - July 2007

Reading shipwreck ceramics - July 2007

Sovereign Exploration Associates International, Inc. - July 2007

History stands still in seabed off Sri Lanka - July 2007

Insider: Profiteers on the High Seas - July 2007

Treasure traps band of hunters - June 2007

The Odyssey treasure find - a 17 ton joke - June 2007

Closing in on mystery - June 2007

Stop, that’s our treasure, Spain tells Britain - June 2007

Chinese find shipwreck laden with Ming porcelain - June 2007

Scrutiny of the bounty - June 2007

Sunken treasure could be a costly find - June 2007

Czechoslovakia's biggest disinformation operation - June 2007

CSS Alabama yields a sailor's remains - June 2007

National Geographic Real Pirates Exhibition - June 2007

Fragmentary Knowledge, First computer ever ? - May 2007

Row over shipwreck treasure deepens Spain versus OMR - May 2007

John Edwards Stakes His Claim on Pirate Booty - May 2007

The men who risk all for sunken treasure - May 2007

Archaeological Experiment Requires a Sail Back in Time - May 2007

UN body adopts new shipwreck rules - May 2007

Treasure may become court odyssey - May 2007

Sunken Treasure, Mint Condition - May 2007

Government remains tight lipped over OMR Treasure find - May 2007

Revealed: a newly sunken Mary Rose - May 2007

Ancient Wooden Anchor Discovered - May 2007

Turkey's underwater archeological treasures - May 2007

Yo-ho-ho: Shipwreck company shareholders find treasure - May 2007

Cutty Sark fire may have been arson - May 2007

Texas A&M researchers attempt deepest effort recovery in gulf - May 2007

"Steel box" sails off to salvage ancient ship - May 2007

History-making sunken ship salvage - May 2007

Ancient ceramics discovered off Xisha Islands 2- May 2007

Comsubin find the treasure of the "Polluce" steamship - May 2007

Surveys Launched to Trace Malabar’s Maritime History - May 2007

Medieval shipwreck found - May 2007

Spanish government 'suspicious' of deep-sea treasure find - May 2007

New Stages for Iran’s Underwater Archeology - May 2007

Vietnam: 40 wrecks with antiques - Apr. 2007

Underwater archeology center proposed - Apr. 2007

Lost world warning from North Sea - Apr. 2007

Tracking Nazi gold-hunter - Apr. 2007

Smugglers Eye Underwater Treasures - Apr. 2007

"Unique" shipwreck found near Stockholm - March 2007

British wreck could yield $1bn in treasure - March 2007

Clues linking Indian, Roman civilisations found - March 2007

Ship Excavation - Napoleon's Attack on the Holy Land - March 2007

An ancient voyage in just two months - March 2007

Sunken Ship Believed to Be Blackbeard's - March 2007

Underwater Turkish-Japanese cooperation - Feb. 2007

Revealing Urla’s underwater treasures - Feb. 2007

Duke launches treasure hunt for Spanish Armada gold - Feb. 2007

The true story of the Santa Margarita - Feb. 2007

Five-year ban on shipwreck diving lifted - Jan. 2007

Shipwreck from the Early Islamic Period off Israeli coast - Jan. 2007

Vietnam shipwreck antiques auctioned in Netherlands - Jan. 2007

Pearl of Maritime Silk Road Restored in Ningbo - Dec. 2006

Greek Experts to Help Recover Persian Gulf Shipwreck - Dec. 2006

Rubies, Ceramics 1,000 Years Old for Sale: Contact Indonesia - Nov. 2006

Spanish researchers find first-century Roman shipwreck - Nov. 2006

Lewes shipwreck, the "Severn", gives up her secrets - Oct. 2006

2,700 Coins from Spanish Shipwrecks to Sell in NY. City - Oct. 2006

$1 billion treasure hunt - Oct. 2006

For treasure seeker, a possible new find - Oct. 2006

Past revealed as museum opens 330 year old coffin - Oct. 2006

Persian Gulf Shipwreck Continues to Remain a Mystery - Oct. 2006

The £3,500-a-night hotel beneath the waves - Sept. 2006

Shipwreck Artefacts For Sale At Aquaria - Sept. 2006

Archaeology Beneath the Sea in the Philippines - Sept. 2006

Budget Drawn for Persian Gulf Shipwreck Excavation - Sept. 2006

Historic Cornish shipwreck - the St Anthony - Sept. 2006

Treasure trove row over 200-year wreck - Sept. 2006

Monaco Financial Fights "Theft" - S.S. Central America Ingots - Sept. 2006

Undersea search turns up China, pottery in Makung - Sept. 2006

Oldest ship to sink a second time - Sept. 2006

$10 Million Gold Rush-era & Billion Dollar Treasury Displays - Sept. 2006

Exhibition of shipwreck relics begins in Can Tho Museum - August 2006

Lake Erie shipwreck's bell raised - August 2006

Wreck of 1526 Spanish ship may be in Winyah Bay - August 2006

Lake Erie shipwreck's bell raised - August 2006

Is it Still Possible to Find a Pirates Gold ? - August 2006

Sunken treasure beckons again - June 2006

Tales of treasure and the deep - Apr. 2006

Bronze cannons, gold and emerald stolen in Haiti - Apr. 2006

Giant squids terrify divers looking for drowned treasures - Apr. 2006

Indonesia seizes ships, arrest divers with sunken treasure - March 2006

Medieval Shipwreck Found in Sweden - March 2006

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Maps Ancient Greek Shipwreck - Feb. 2006

The Flor do Mar - 1511, An Early Epilogue of the Lost Ship - Feb. 2006

New Law Leaves Greeces UW Treasures Vulnerable to Looting - Dec. 2005

Greece's seas: the looters' next destination - Dec. 2005

Divers follow trail to Elba treasure - Oct. 2005

In Greece, high-tech underwater looters - Sept. 2005

Shipwreck looters to be prosecuted in Malta - Sept. 2005

U.S. explorers to mine alpine lake for Nazi loot - Aug. 2005

Divers plead guilty to removing U/W archaeological items - Aug. 2005

Hidden treasure in the Philippines - June 2005

Search on for secret of Greek sea battle - June 2005

University professor finds ancient shipwreck - Apr. 2005

Black Sea slowly gives up ancient secrets - Oct. 2004

In shipwrecks, new clues to a buried past - July 2004

Sunken treasure brings tidal wave of trouble - June 2004

Portuguese shipwreck a real treasure - May 2004

Underwater Treasures Put on Legal Agenda - March. 2004

Bid to find lost Persian armada - Jan. 2004

Shipwreck Gold Found off U.S.—Worth $180,000,000 ? - Dec. 2003

The ultimate treasure-hunter - Feb. 2003

UNESCO urges America to join the UW heritage convention - Feb. 2002

The Spanish Conquest comes back into view - Dec. 2001

Roman shipwrecks from the wine. Dark Sea - Oct. 2001

Treasure hunt on Christmas ship - May 2001

Diving for Diamonds - Sept. 2000

Uluburun shipwreck from past to present - Feb. 2000

When treasure and technology meet, who gets the gold ? - Nov. 1998

Shipwreck of lost 'Sea People' found - Oct. 1998

Croatia Resurfacing After a Long Dive - May 1998

Shipwrecks in the Deep Freeze - April 1998

Odyssey searches for treasure in submerged ships off Brazil - May 1998

Silver coin maybe link to treasure ship... - Sept. 1997

Divers, archaeologists seek gold off cape Verde - March 1996

Bozburun Byzantine Shipwreck Excavation - 1995-98

The hidden museums of the Mediterranean sea - Oct. 1990

The amphora war, looting of ancient shipwrecks is widespread - Nov. 1987

States pursue sunken loot, real and archaeological - Apr. 1987

Mauritius and the Pirate Ship Speaker - 1984

Serçe Liman1 11th Century Byzantine Shipwreck Excavation - 1977-79

Fortune from Neptune - July 1932 !

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