Buckler’s Hard is a small riverside hamlet in New Forest, and it was once one of the busiest private shipyards of the 1700s.

Using a supply list from an ancient clay tablet, experts have reconstructed a large Bronze Age ship from 4,000 years ago and sailed it around the Persian Gulf.

The researchers predict there are perhaps hundreds still to be found. Ward says the well-preserved ship comes from a time, 1,500 years ago, when ships were custom-made to order.

From the humble canoes of ancient civilizations skimming along coastal waters to the grand vessels of the modern era ...

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

A Byzantine-period church with wall art displaying ships was discovered in an Israel Antiquities Authority excavation in the Northern Negev. The church was unearthed south of the Bedouin city of ...

Once Europe's most forbidding coast, this sparkling stretch of the Ionian Sea is slowly revealing lost treasures that date back 2,500 years and shipwrecks from ancient times.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Writings on an ancient clay tablet have allowed experts to reconstruct a Bronze Age ship made of reeds and sail it on a maiden voyage off the coast of Abu Dhabi ...