Archaeologists find two sunken ships 'full of treasures'

Archaeologists have found gold coins and other treasures scattered around two shipwrecks off the coast of Colombia.. In addition, traces of two more ancient shipwrecks were found nearby, CBS news reports..

Maritime experts call one of these ships, the San Jose galleon, the " A remotely controlled shipwreck surveillance operation descended 900 meters below the surface of the ocean.

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In the video, which was filmed during the dive, you can see the treasures scattered around the " They include gold bars and coins, cannons made in Seville in 1655, and an intact Chinese dinner service..

The ROV also found evidence of two other shipwrecks, including a schooner that probably sank two centuries ago..

Colombia was a Spanish colony at the time the San Jose sank in 1708.. Collected throughout South America, especially in Peru and Bolivia, the gold was stored in a fort in the coastal city of Cartagena and then shipped to Europe..

The Colombian government considers this gold a national treasure and plans to exhibit it in a museum to be built in Cartagena..

Earlier, marine archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority discovered traces of two sunken ships at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea near the ancient city of Caesarea.. Shipwrecks took place at different times, but almost in the same place.