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 ...

In July 1860, the Clotilda—the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States—landed in Mobile, Alabama. The wooden vessel’s cargo hold measured around 500 square feet, about the size of a ...

The finds include votives, jewelry, ritual instruments, and a duck-shaped pourer. A votive hand is emerging from the sediment during an archaeological excavation in Thonis-Heracleion. End of 5th ...

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

In 1982, a discovery made by a sponge diver prompted archaeologists to complete 22,000 dives to excavate the area of the Uluburun shipwreck. The 3,300-year-old shipwreck was initially discovered by a ...

Caligula and Nero both had homes in the hedonistic spa town. A copy of an original statue, preserved at the Museum of Baiae, of Dionysus, in the submerged ancient Roman city of Baia at the Underwater ...

Deep below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea off the French coast, the pincer of a remotely guided underwater robot delicately closes around a centuries-old jug lying near a 16th-century shipwreck.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have discovered by chance what they say are the remains of a 16th-century merchant ship more than 1.5 miles ...

The technology is making it easier to monitor underwater archaeological sites. Over 2,000 years ago, Baiae was the most magnificent resort town on the Italian peninsula. Wealthy statesmen including ...

Scientists made significant advances in underwater archaeology techniques and photogrammetry while investigating the crannog site ...

Underwater archaeologists mapped 600 wooden posts that once held up an ancient village. The Italian community living on Lake Mezzano left behind plenty of Bronze Age artifacts. The history of fire at ...