When thinking about items on a shipwreck, one might imagine a treasure chest full of coins, stack of gold bars, ship cargo or passenger’s personal belongings. But inside some wrecks lie even rarer ...

We imagine the ancient world as one made of stone. Marble temples, megalithic structures, and rock-hewn tombs dominate the modern image of the pre-modern period. That image is, of course, an ...

A cargo ship lying at the bottom of the sea off the Belgian coast has been fitted with a new treasure chest: a stash of rare flat oysters. Molluscs have mostly disappeared from the North Sea due to ...

The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast. Archaeologists recently found the wreck of an ...

Many shipwrecks now serve as habitats for coral and marine life, while also attracting scuba divers. Some wrecks, sunk by war or accident, are accessible only by robotic cameras, offering eerie ...

Across the world’s continental shelves, archaeologists are racing a rising tide of development and climate change to map and ...

When a ship sinks, it is often in tragic circumstances. Beneath the waves, however, a different story unfolds: shipwrecks become the foundations of new life. Rusting hulls, broken masts and even piles ...

Maritime history and mystery will take center stage later this month as the “History in Motion” series presents Shipwrecks of ...

The shipwreck of the SS Republic (1865). Experimental deep-sea archaeology. Part 1: Fieldwork & site history / Neil Cunningham Dobson, Ellen Gerth and J. Lange Winckler -- The shipwreck of the SS ...

Hurricane Erin swept away the mast of the Sea King, a trawler wrecked off Barnegat Light in 1963. The mast had been a visible landmark on the beach for decades. BARNEGAT LIGHT -- Hurricane Erin ...