In 2008, diamond miners in Namibia made a stunning discovery beneath the sand: a 500-year-old Portuguese ship. How did the treasure-laden Bom Jesus end up hidden in the shore?

The wreck of a German steamship sunk at the end of World War II found by divers, with the crates on board the submerged ...

When thinking about items on a shipwreck, one might imagine a treasure chest full of coins, stack of gold bars, ship cargo or ...

A man in Maryland was hired to clean out a trash-riddled farm when he discovered a lost Tajik teahouse that was made by the ...

A desert is a vast expanse of land loaded with hundreds of tons of sand, endless golden dunes, and numerous organisms that ...

These thirty remarkable discoveries from 2024-2025 represent only a fraction of the archaeological treasures emerging from soil, sand, and sea around the world. Each find adds another piece to the ...

In Senon, north-eastern France, a homeowner’s renovation plans were interrupted when diggers unearthed the remains of a Gallo-Roman settlement from 100 to 350 B.C. The most striking discovery was a ...

Rapparee Cove is no stranger to ship wrecks. Indeed, it is thought that it takes its name from the death of many Irish ...

This sun-soaked thriller from the early 2000s has landed a place on the Netflix charts, beating some favourite Christmas classics ...

My ship is the newly-launched 146-passenger Bahareya (which means “belongs to the river” in Arabic) and is TUI River Cruises’ second Nile vessel. Starting in Luxor and making stops in Kom Ombo, Aswan ...

Experts brought to the surface the first treasures from the 1700s Spanish galleon the San José. Considered the Holy Grail of shipwrecks, the Colombian government is planning to preserve these first ...