The Lost Gold Treasure of Flor de la Mar: A $2.6 Billion Shipwreck Yet to Be Found

The Lost Gold Treasure of Flor de la Mar: A $2.6 Billion Shipwreck Yet to Be Found

Replica of Flor de le Mar in Malacca city, Malaysia. Credit: Uwe Aranas / Public Domain More than 500 years after it vanished beneath the sea, the Flor de la Mar remains one of history’s most valuable and mysterious shipwrecks. The 16th-century Portuguese vessel believed to be carrying a treasure worth $2.6 billion in today’s value, sank in 1511 off the coast of Sumatra, an island on Indonesia, during a storm. Neither the ship nor its cargo has …