The oldest sunken ships ever discovered in the deep sea, two Phoenician merchant vessels dating to the time of Homer and his “Odyssey,” have been found at the bottom of the Mediterranean off the coast ...

Penglai Ancient Ship Museum, located in Penglai district, Yantai, East China's Shandong province, is home to the largest and most diverse collection of ancient ships in the country. The museum ...

Three models of ancient Chinese ships are returning home for a visit more than 100 years after their debut at the 1904 St Louis World's Fair in the United States. One of the three models of ancient ...

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Last fall, underwater archaeologists rejoiced when it was announced that a joint Greek-American expedition discovered a shipwreck graveyard in the Fourni archipelago in Greece. It was one of the most ...

Italian builders have stumbled on the ancient Roman port of Neapolis while digging tunnels for an underground rail system in Naples. Archaeologists have now lifted three ships dating back to the first ...

For more than a thousand years the ships of death moldered unseen on the shore of the Baltic Sea, sheltering the bones of dozens of Viking-era young men and a trove of rich possessions. Now, after ...

An archaeological survey expedition called the Black Sea Maritime Archaeological Project discovered a shipwreck about 80km (49.7 miles) from the Bulgarian city of Burgas. A pair of remotely operated ...

CAIRO — An American-Italian team of archeologists has found the remains of 4,000-year-old ships that used to carry cargo between Pharaonic Egypt and the mysterious land of Punt, the Supreme Council of ...

The Charles W. Morgan, a historic whaling ship built in 1841, is preserved as a museum ship. Named after Charles Waln Morgan, a New Bedford merchant, she sailed until 1921, later serving as a storage ...