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 ...
"The ship's structure suggests that it was capable of long-distance voyages, likely used for maritime trade or naval ...
The immense treasure hidden inside San José garnered it the honor of "holy grail of shipwrecks." Since 1708, it has remained ...
A fatal shipwreck lost for 129 years off the Algoma shore in Kewaunee County recently was named to the State Register of Historic Places while an already-registered historic place in Door County was ...
In the last several months, two more-than-a-century-old shipwrecks were discovered in the Great Lakes - the SS James Carruthers in Lake Huron, one of the largest missing ships in the region, and the ...
NPR's Juana Summers talks with maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen about the record number of shipwreck discoveries in the Great Lakes in recent years, including two just in the last several months.