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Everyone wants to get their hands on the San José, a ship full of gold, silver and emeralds submerged in the Caribbean Sea—but at what archaeological cost?

Coordinated by Unesco, the project will examine the underwater site between Sicily and Tunisia

As the underwater robot OceanOneK carefully navigated toward the upper deck railing of the sunken Italian steamship Le Francesco Crispi about 500 m below the Mediterranean’s surface this month (roughly a third of a mile), Stanford University robotici

USA international trafficking investigations led to the return of 5 famous Chinese gold ingots that had been stolen from an 18th century French shipwreck.

The Department of Homeland Security just returned a trove of artifacts deemed to be the property of the French government, and five gold ingots that were likely smuggled to the U.S. decades ago and which landed in a Bay Area auction house, were among them.

The Chinese ingots, illegally harvested from a French frigate that sank while returning from Nanjing, were seized by U.S. investigators when they were put up for auction in California.

The Chinese ingots, illegally harvested from a French frigate that sank while returning from Nanjing, were seized by U.S. investigators when they were put up for auction in California.

le 27/06/2021 18:03 Temps de lecture : 4 min. L"Alfred Merlin", fleuron de la flotte scientifique française, le 25 juin 2021. (OLIVIER EMOND / RADIO FRANCE) Direction les fonds des océans à la découverte de cuirassés, paquebots ou galions engloutis. Toutes ces épaves accumulées au fil des siècles au fond de l’eau sont le terrain de jeu des archéologues sous-marins qui vont disposer cette semaine dun tout nouvel outil, un bateau de dernière génération doté des meilleures tech...