Shipwrecks

A virtual dive of a 17th-century shipwreck explores the remains of a ship used by the Dutch to secretly trade with Iceland.

It sailed around the world in the 1700s and is considered one of the most famous research ships.

Ancient sailors courted adventure and risked death on the Aegean Sea, as shown in five 2,000-year-old shipwrecks and a giant, granite anchor pole found near the Greek island of Levitha.

"It’s almost like it sank yesterday"

Scavengers can make millions of dollars by selling the scrap metal from old shipwrecks — no matter how many human remains are desecrated in the process.

Archaeologists diving off the southeastern coast of Cyprus just discovered an ancient treasure: the first known "undisturbed Roman shipwreck" in the country's history.

The wreck was filled with a trove of copper.

An astrolabe found at a shipwreck site in Oman is the oldest one ever discovered.

One of the most elusive boats from the ancient world — a mysterious river barge that famed Greek historian Herodotus described nearly 2,500 years ago — has finally been discovered.

The wreck may be lying on the seafloor near the Larsen C Ice Shelf.