A diver stumbled across the find of a lifetime off the coast of Sardinia when a stray shiny item loosened itself from the sea ...

Off the coast of Marseille, National Geographic Explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau hauled up thousands of ancient clay ...

Iron Age cargoes from Dor reveal how ancient Mediterranean trade evolved alongside shifting empires and political power. New ...

An exceptional find since it was a 2400-year-old Greek merchant ship. Given its depth and low oxygen levels, it has been ...

Dive into two of the strangest water mysteries on Earth. First, we explore the Black Sea - a place with layered waters that never mix, perfectly preserved ancient shipwrecks, underwater “rivers,” lost ...

Underwater archaeologists have stumbled across the remains of a pleasure barge dating from the first half of the 1st century ...

It was February 5, 1826, when the Sweden-registered ketch Ida, en route to Stockholm from Messina in Sicily, laden with a ...

Maritime archaeologists from Denmark's Viking Ship Museum have unearthed an extraordinary find beneath the waters near Copenhagen - the largest medieval cog ever discovered. The 600-year-old vessel ...

The most notable shipwreck of recent years, the 62,000-tonne vessel was badly damaged in a storm in the English channel on 18 January 2007 and started taking in water through a hole in its side before ...

When we think of the Age of Discovery, it's easy to think in the past tense. For the most part, the intrepid explorers of old have long since returned home or been lost to history. But these tales of ...

These thirty remarkable discoveries from 2024-2025 represent only a fraction of the archaeological treasures emerging from soil, sand, and sea around the world. Each find adds another piece to the ...

From the storied shores of Scandinavia to the ancient cities of the Mediterranean, we've picked out Europe's 29 most ...