Sensational shipwreck discovery off Norway: Intact Chinese porcelain and chandeliers at a depth of 600 metres
The porcelain wreck is the best-preserved find of its kind in northern Europe. “No one has ever done this before in the Nordic region,” says Sven Ahrens…
Global Cargo
Found in the waters off a small Dutch island, a seventeenth-century shipwreck provides an unparalleled view of the golden age of European trade (Kees Zwaan/Courtesy Province of…
Wear in Beauty and Happiness”: The 1,500-Year-Old Message Hidden on the Sole of a Sandal
The inscription was not meant to be read by the world. It was carved into the inside face of a wooden sandal — the surface that rests…
The Antikythera Mechanism: The 2,000-Year-Old “Computer” That Shouldn’t Exist
In 1901, sponge divers working off a tiny Greek island brought up a corroded lump of bronze and wood, crusted with two thousand years of sea-floor sediment….
A 500-Year-Old Treasure Ship Surfaced in the Namib Desert — and the Real Story Is Stranger Than “Lost in the Sand”
Picture a wooden sailing ship — hull, masts, a fortune in its belly — lying half-buried in the sand of one of the driest deserts on Earth,…
THE SHIP THAT SANK SO GENTLY ITS PORCELAIN NEVER FELL
For more than 250 years, it rested in darkness nearly 2,000 feet beneath the cold waters off the coast of Norway. No survivors. No records explaining its…
THE GHOST SHIP THAT VANISHED BENEATH ANTARCTICA FOR 107 YEARS
In 1915, a ship disappeared into one of the most hostile places on Earth. It was swallowed by Antarctic ice. Crushed. Abandoned. Lost to history. For more…
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Secrets Beneath the Bermuda Triangle Continue to Fascinate the World
Secrets Beneath the Bermuda Triangle Continue to Fascinate the World For generations, the Bermuda Triangle has stood at the center of some of the ocean’s most enduring…
Cυba’s Uпderwater Pyramid Was Fiпally Re Scaппed After 25 Years — The Resυlts Are Worse Thaп Feared
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