Each cargo load, despite being discovered in the same port, dated back to a different time period of the Iron Age.

An anchor, basket handles, jars and other artifacts were found among the cargoes at the three sites, the oldest of which ...

Among their finds were tableware, tools, almonds, sailor's sandals and even spear points in the hull – possible evidence that the ship sank in an attack. The ship and many of the artefacts she carried ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds.

Gold and silver coins worth about $1 million are found in Florida waters from Spanish ships that sank in a 1715 hurricane ...

Sunken finds in the South China Sea testify to rich trade networks used over hundreds of years. The sea routes brought ...

A volunteer checking on local breeding pairs of hooded plovers after wild weather has stumbled across the rusted bones of a ...

The vessel slab was found Tuesday on Low Beach by a person exploring the area with a metal detector, the Inquirer and Mirror ...

The site’s description places the wreck near 45 meters, or about 148 feet, and dates the material to the first century BCE. Uniform cargo tells a story about commerce, not ceremony. Merchants moved ...

New research out of the University of California San Diego and the University of Haifa is reshaping what we know about ancient seaborne trade in the eastern Mediterranean. Published recently in ...

The hundreds of silver coins were found over the summer on a shipwreck that is believed to have been part of a lost fleet of up to a dozen Spanish treasure ships known today as the 1715 Fleet, ...