Archaeologists in Colombia marked a major treasure recovery milestone this week after retrieving the first artifacts from the legendary San José galleon — a shipwreck dubbed the “Holy Grail of shipwrecks” for its extraordinary trove of gold, silver and jewels.
Researchers believe they've confirmed the identity of a lost early 18th-century Spanish galleon, the San José, through a key discovery: gold escudos minted in Lima in 1707.
