The disaster involving the sinking of the ferry boat Express Samina on September 26, 2000, off the coast of Paros which claimed the lives of eighty-one people still haunts Greece.
The ferry remains at the bottom of the Aegean Sea...
A rare World War II German torpedo boat that sank off western Greece in 1943 has been discovered nearly intact on the seabed of the Ionian Sea, ending a search that began more than a decade ago.
The wreck, identified...
An ancient merchant ship carrying hundreds of amphorae dating to the late 5th and early 4th centuries BC has been discovered off the Greek island of Andros, offering new evidence of maritime trade during the Classical period.
The discovery was...
The discovery of a ship filled with gold coins, missing for five centuries and uncovered in a southwest African desert, is one of the most thrilling archaeological finds of recent times.
The Bom Jesus (The Good Jesus) was a Portuguese...
A spectacular collection of Byzantine gold artifacts recovered from a shipwreck off Croatia's Adriatic coast is shedding new light on one of the Eastern Roman Empire's most turbulent periods. Archaeologists believe the vessel carried a high-ranking passenger rather than...
The world-renowned Navagio Beach on the Greek island of Zakynthos will be extended by 30 meters (aprox. 100 ft) towards the sea with gravel to protect the iconic shipwreck from erosion.
The ship that ran aground off the island's coast...
An iconic landmark of the Peloponnese, the historic Dimitrios shipwreck near Gytheio, is gradually succumbing to the passage of time and the relentless sea. Its metallic hull, once a striking silhouette against the coast, now shows severe and irreversible...
Archaeologists have uncovered a massive cargo ship dating back 600 years beneath the Øresund Strait, the stretch of water separating Denmark and Sweden. Believed to be the largest medieval cog ever discovered, the ship was found 40 feet underwater...
