Archaeology has long been kind to the men (and women) who raised Egypt’s stone marvels. Burial shafts beside the Giza ...

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

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

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Long known only as the site of Napoleon’s exile, Saint Helena is in fact a sanctuary of rare biodiversity, dramatic ...

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Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships.

Divers recently identified two Danish slave ships, Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, during an excavation near Costa Rica. The vessels were shipwrecked in 1710.

The remains of two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to be pirate ships, have finally been found to be Danish slave ships, a museum reported Sunday.

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

The last known slave ship to travel to the United States is too “broken” to be pulled from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast and should stay underwater to preserve the “crime scene ...

The last known U.S. slave ship is too "broken" and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers and ...