A cargo ship lying at the bottom of the sea off the Belgian coast has been fitted with a new treasure chest: a stash of rare ...

Whale oil was an essential fuel of the Industrial Revolution, used to lubricate machinery, soften fabric and light city ...

When a schoolboy going for a run found the ribs of a wooden ship poking through the dunes of a remote Scottish beach, it ...

Marine archeologists have identified a British warship with ties to Canada, more than a year after it was first discovered as ...

Pirates attacked the Portuguese warship, named the "Nossa Senhora do Cabo," and made off with many of the treasures the ship ...

An Italian judge on Monday ordered six police and coastguard officers to stand trial for mishandling operations during a ...

In 2024, a schoolboy was out for a jog on the Scottish island of Sanday when he found the remains of a centuries-old shipwreck. After 18 months of investigation by archeologists and local historians, ...

A schoolboy's discovery of a wooden ship's ribs on a Scottish beach led archaeologists to identify it as the Earl of Chatham, ...

But when a storm buffeted a beach there last year, a long-buried surprise was revealed beneath the sand: A 9m wooden shipwreck. The mystery of the oak hull’s provenance was revealed today by a team of ...

"As harrowing and gripping as the Baileys' story is, the real star of this book is its dazzling writer," said Chris Hewitt in ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...