Construction on the Varberg Tunnel in Sweden—part of a modern railway project—has resulted in an unexpected bounty of ...

The artifacts are the first treasures to be recovered from the wreckage of the San José, a Spanish galleon that was sunk by ...

Colombian authorities on Thursday showed off the first objects to be recovered from a treasure-crammed Spanish galleon that ...

"The ship's structure suggests that it was capable of long-distance voyages, likely used for maritime trade or naval ...

HANGZHOU -- New DNA analysis of soil sediments from a Song Dynasty (960-1279) shipwreck unearthed along the shore of Wenzhou city in East China's Zhejiang province has revealed that yams were once ...

Dubbed the "holy grail of shipwrecks," the ship is believed to hold 11 million gold and silver coins, emeralds and other precious cargo.

For the residents of a UNESCO-listed town in Vietnam, Typhoon Kalmaegi lifted the curtain on a forgotten chapter of history, ...

The 4,200-year-old shipwreck off the tiny island of Dokos near Greece's Hydra is believed to be the oldest shipwreck ever ...

A remarkably preserved Roman merchant ship from the late Roman Empire resting just about six feet (two meters) beneath the crystal blue waters off the coast of the island of Mallorca, near the Iberian ...

After a windy winter storm whipped against the Scottish island of Sanday in February 2024, a schoolboy stumbled upon several peculiar wooden beams emerging from the dunes of a local beach. The beams ...

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 ...