Valuable shipwrecked treasures are now seeing the light of day after they sank along with the San José galleon off the coast of Colombia more than 300 years ago.
The incredibly well-preserved items that were retrieved, including a cannon, a porcelain cup and three coins, are just a taste of the wreck's vast riches. The galleon is often dubbed "the Holy Grail of shipwrecks" as it went down with a huge cargo of 200 tons (180 metric tons) of gold, silver and gems that was said to be worth around $18billion in 2018. The recovery is part of an ongoing project by the Colombian government to investigate the wreck and recover the precious artifacts.
