Tiny fragments of copper pulled from a French shipwreck are helping historians unlock secrets about how Napoleon's warships were built and supplied during one of the empire's most desperate wartime campaigns.
A new study examined metal sheathing and nails from...
Six shipwrecks linked to the real 'Pirates of the Caribbean' have been found in Nassau's harbor in the Bahamas for the first time, an international expedition announced.
The New Providence Pirates Expedition conducted the survey in late 2025 after receiving...
Archaeologists surveying the Norway coast have found an underwater structure in Telavåg that may date back at least 1,000 years, a discovery researchers say could mark the first physical underwater remains tied to a whale-trapping tradition described in medieval...
Archaeologists have identified whale-bone harpoons dating back 5,000 years in southern Brazil, offering new evidence that Indigenous communities hunted massive marine animals long before the invention of metal tools or advanced boats. The findings suggest these early populations crafted...
Researchers have uncovered underwater Inca-era structures just off the coast of the El Huarco Archaeological Complex, a major historical site in the Cañete province, south of Lima.
The discovery includes stone walls believed to date back to the Inca period,...
Marine archaeologists uncovered a massive 7,000-year-old undersea wall off the coast of Brittany in France. Stretching 120 meters (394 feet) long and weighing an estimated 3,300 tonnes, the stone formation is believed to be the largest underwater construction ever...
Marine archaeologist Alexandre Monteiro has said that the coast of Portugal between the Azores and Madeira islands holds golden treasure-laden shipwrecks. This region is said to contain close to 8,620 ships, and 250 of them are said to hold...
Captain Cook's lost ship, the HMS Endeavor, the vessel which first reached the continent of Australia, may have been found on the seafloor under the harbor of Newport, Rhode Island.
But the head archaeologist in the investigation is not so...
Franck Goddio, the marine archaeologist who discovered the underwater city of eastern Alexandria and Heracleion, Egypt, will hold a presentation in December highlighting many of the discoveries he has made in the last 25 years.
The talk, which will be...
