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Treasure worth £662 mn recovered from shipwreck
short by Aditya Kashyap / on Sunday, 6 December, 2015
Columbian President Juan Santos on Saturday announced that Columbia has recovered the wreckage of a Spanish ship that was sunk off the Columbian coast and contained treasure worth at least £662 million. The ship was sunk in 1708 in the Carribean sea during fighting with the British and is believed to be carrying one of the richest cargos ever.
read more at The Guardian