4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (453+ words) A century ago, one of France's most powerful warships vanished in under sixty seconds, taken down by something no map of the time had ever recorded. What happened that night, and why it's still down there today, is a story…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (588+ words) A cellar renovation in Germany just uncovered a complete 13th-century ship's hull after centuries of mystery, exposing an extraordinary Medieval discovery. Archaeologists examining a cellar in Konstanz, Germany, set out to study a centuries-old room and instead stumbled onto something…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (705+ words) Sixty meters beneath the Baltic, an intact ship holds champagne and luxury goods untouched for generations. Although the sonar image of the object looked small enough to allow for a short dive, Polish divers investigating the Baltic Sea thought it…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (543+ words) The scale of the coin hoard uncovered off Sardinia has been described by officials as historically significant, yet the full account of how it came to rest on the seafloor remains incomplete. Understanding why this particular hoard matters requires looking…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (636+ words) A highway survey in the Czech Republic was supposed to be routine. Instead, crews stumbled onto hidden gold that had remained untouched for over 2,000 years. While archaeologists were carrying out a completely routine survey of a site ahead of highway…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (479+ words) Explorers found coats, boots and personal belongings around Titanic. What they didn’t find is far more unsettling. They have never found or documented any human remains. The fact that no human remains were found are due to the physical laws…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (411+ words) Nineteen cannons, four anchors, one 200-meter trail on the seafloor. Archaeologists just traced the exact moment a doomed ship gave up its fight to survive. The wreck, known as Ánimas de la Victoria, sits inside Espíritu Santo Bay, within the…...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago   (706+ words) A diamond mine on Namibia’s coast uncovered a 500-year-old wreck, gold coins and traces of a vanished trading world. The desert was supposed to be holding diamonds. Instead, work along Namibia’s southern coast exposed evidence of a trading world that…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (928+ words) Nothing preserves a Roman emperor’s ships like 2,000 years underwater. Nothing destroys them faster than war. Two massive Roman ships, believed to belong to Emperor Caligula, lay submerged in Lake Nemi (a volcanic crater lake) approximately 30 kilometers south of Rome, for…...

3+ week, 11+ hour ago   (593+ words) A Sicilian fisherman went looking for a rock formation underwater. Instead, he found a wreck that authorities are now calling one of the most important underwater discoveries in recent years, and the full details are still being confirmed. A spearfisherman…...