There are very few remains of ancient ships, except in one unusual place: the Black Sea has a unique environment that ...

Evidence of a similar vessel appears on an ancient Greek vase featuring the infamous Homeric character, Odysseus, tied to its ...

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but after their underwater cameras probed the depths of the Black Sea they quickly saw why the Greeks nicknamed it the “Hostile Sea.” In its deep, dark waters, ancient shipwrecks are scattered ...

By Jo Marchant The timbers of a 500-year-old ship rest on the floor of the Baltic Sea. Scholars and divers ... Farther down, everything is encased in a fine black sediment that “jiggles like ...

Archaeologists investigated a sunken ship in Sweden and identified it as 500-year-old boat built with the caravel ... Marine archaeologists plunged into the Baltic Sea near Landfjärden to explore ...

A 15th-century shipwreck off the coast of Sweden may be Scandinavia's oldest shipwreck built in the innovative "carvel" style — a design that gave it the strength to carry heavy cannons, ...

(CNN)-- First there was the discovery of dozens of bottles of 200-year-old champagne ... from the same shipwreck south of the autonomous Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea. "At the moment, we ...