Shipwrecks can reveal information about traded goods and even which rituals people partook in centuries ago. Shipwrecks can ...

In 1998, the first of many Roman-era ships was unearthed in the ‘Pompeii of the sea.’ Archaeologists wanted to know how they got there. The Alkedo, a Roman military surveillance craft, sank in ...

The oldest sunken ships ever discovered in the deep sea, two Phoenician merchant vessels dating to the time of Homer and his “Odyssey,” have been found at the bottom of the Mediterranean off ...

Italian archeologists think they are on the verge of finding the ancient ships downed in the battle of the Aegates Islands between Rome and Carthage in 241 BC. Experts from Sicily and the ...

Jersey Post has released a set of six stamps to celebrate the island's rich history of shipbuilding. During the 19th Century, ...

For more than a thousand years the ships of death moldered unseen on the shore of the Baltic Sea, sheltering the bones of dozens of Viking-era young men and a trove of rich possessions.

Before Steffy, people who studied ancient ships were considered underwater archaeologists, Bass said. After he revolutionized the field, Bass added, they were known as nautical archaeologists who ...

Dozens of ancient ships scattered across the bottom of the Black Sea were discovered after a nearly three-year excursion that researchers are calling “one of the largest maritime archaeological ...

They found the remains of a massive building, dating to the second century, where ancient ships were likely built close to the distinctive hexagonal basin, or "harbor," at the center of the port ...