A team of researchers have been uncovering a remarkably well-preserved shipwreck, which is thought to be around 2,000 years old, in Barbir Bay near Sukošan in Croatia. Archaeologists from the ...

Fun facts about Cleopatra: Although associated in the public mind with ancient Egypt, she lived closer to our time than to the building of the pyramids of Giza. When she was ruling Egypt and ...

In July 1860, the Clotilda—the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States—landed in Mobile, Alabama. The wooden vessel’s cargo hold measured around 500 square feet, about the size of a ...

Archaeologists have discovered by chance what they say are the remains of a 16th-century merchant ship more than 1.5 miles underwater off southern France, the deepest such find in its section of the ...

Archeaologist Neil Puckett swims with a mastodon bone he dug up from the bottom of the Aucilla River. Adam Burke Courtesy of the Center for the Study of the First Americans (CSFA) Unlike almost any ...

Independent researchers led by Michael Donnellan claim to have discovered ancient ruins on Spain's Salmedina Island that ...

As a kid, I’d write letters to George Bass, an American professor of underwater archaeology who used to contribute to National Geographic magazine. He actually responded, and we carried on this ...

MANITOWOC — A major shipwreck discovery in Lake Superior will be revealed during Manitowoc's newest fete, the Ghost Ships Festival. The festival, organized by the Wisconsin Underwater Archeology ...

An immersive new exhibition at the Intrepid Museum in New York City spotlights the science and technology behind the discipline Aurora Martínez - Staff Contributor "Mysteries From the Deep: Exploring ...