A sacred relic found recovered from a shipwreck may hold a hidden treasure.

Archaeologists working in the waters around Fournoi, a small island group in the northern Aegean Sea, recorded 22 ancient ...

Archaeologists have identified five ancient shipwrecks in the waters surrounding Levitha, a small and sparsely inhabited Greek island in the eastern Aegean. The wrecks, whose cargoes include amphorae ...

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The discovery, led by researchers at the University of Cádiz working on Project Herkales, includes at least 134 shipwrecks, some dating back as far as the fifth century BCE. These aren't just empty ...

The find came in an area known as the Fourni Archipelago, a small group of 13 islands along with islets and reefs that all sit between the larger islands of Samos and Icaria. These islands are between ...

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 ...

When a shipwreck occurs around the world, it often makes the news for a few reasons. It could be that the ship was particularly well-known, or it could be how it sank that gets the public's attention, ...

Divers exploring the centuries-old Antikythera wreck retrieved intact pieces of the ship and found artifacts that shed light on life aboard the craft. The Antikythera shipwreck dates back to the first ...

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