After her death, a man inherited it and noticed that the “rock” could be valuable, so he decided to have it appraised and discovered its true worth.

The 16th-century Portuguese shipwreck, Flor de la Mar, which sank off Sumatra with an estimated $2.6 billion in treasure, remains unfound.

So often, your piggy bank sits on your shelf collecting dust, being filled with spare change occasionally. However, ...

After months of secrecy and under pressure from Spain, Odyssey Marine Exploration has finally named the wreck from which it recovered a haul of valuable treasure last year operating from Gibraltar.

In November 1992, a tenant farmer named Peter Whatling, from the town of Hoxne, England, lost his hammer in his field. So he called his friend, Eric Lawes, who was a metal-detecting enthusiast, to ...

but also shows just how callous we have collectively been with regard to protecting what is inarguably our most valuable natural treasure. With the potential for these latest fires to be deliberate ...