Spanning centuries, more than 100 historic shipwrecks have been uncovered on the seafloor of the Bay of Gibraltar by ...

A Turkish sponge diver's discovery of "metal biscuits with ears" in 1982 led to the unearthing of the Uluburun wreck, a ...

In 1772, merchant John Brown recruited men from a Providence tavern to silently row south on part of Narragansett Bay, board the British revenue schooner HMS Gaspee and set the custom's patrol boat on ...

The site to be surveyed in the central Mediterranean, between Sicily and Tunisia, is believed to be home to hundreds of wrecked ships. The Alfred Merlin archeological research ship, whuch was debuted ...

The development of maritime archaeology / George F. Bass -- Defining a ship : architecture, function, and human space / Patrice Pomey -- Wreck-site formation processes / Colin Martin -- Acoustic ...

Some Belfast High School students spent time with their feet in the mud and their hands in the dirt as they investigated a ...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has awarded a team of researchers from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and UC San Diego for ...

Marine archaeologists have identified 10 shipwrecks, including one from the Roman era, in the waters around a Greek island in the Mediterranean. The finds came to light during a multiyear project ...

Marine archaeologists pioneered a new imaging technique that allowed them to reconstruct various phases in the life of this ...

Editor's Note: Veteran science journalist Philip Hilts is working and diving with a team of archeologists, engineers and divers off the shore of Antikythera, a remote Greek island, where a treasure ...