Divers recovered hundreds of gold coins from an English wreck; newly uncovered London legal records finally reveal the ship’s name, cargo and doomed voyage. Thirty years after a glint of gold first caught a diver’s eye on the sands of Devon’s...

A shipwreck off Andros revealed hundreds of ancient amphorae, but the most telling find lies in the mysterious cargo uncovered on the seabed. A team of Greek underwater archaeologists has uncovered a massive cargo of ancient trade jars near the island...

A mysterious object discovered on board continues to baffle experts, leaving researchers scrambling to uncover its true origin and purpose. Deep beneath the silt of Germany’s Bay of Greifswald, a routine survey for a planned gas pipeline revealed an...

Archaeologists have mapped a 200-meter seafloor trail of cannons and anchors, revealing the final, desperate moments of a doomed shipwreck. Hidden beneath the Caribbean waters off the Yucatán Peninsula, a haunting collection of nineteen cannons and...

Divers have discovered an ancient shipwreck dating back to before Alexander the Great off a Greek island, following a tip from a private citizen. An underwater archaeological team has confirmed the discovery of an ancient merchant vessel resting off...

A 500-year-old shipwreck filled with gold coins has been unearthed in a Namibian diamond mine, revealing secrets of a vanished maritime trading world. In April 2008, miners scouring Namibia’s Atlantic coast for diamonds stumbled upon a historical...

Archaeologists uncover a 16th‑century shipwreck 2,567 m beneath the Mediterranean, its cargo eerily preserved as if frozen in time. A French naval survey team has pinpointed a 16th‑century merchant vessel resting at roughly 2,567 metres below the...