The ocean floor is a graveyard containing the remains of historic voyages and the wreckage of small-scale maritime tragedies.

Arrayed like giant puzzle pieces on the museum floor, research assistants and volunteers spent weeks cleaning the timbers to ...

Since time immemorial, wood has been the most ancient building material. Shelters, huts, houses, churches, and other buildings were erected using it. The complexity of the buildings increased over the ...

In this episode Dr Sam Willis explores HMS Warrior, one of the most groundbreaking ships in the history of naval power.An iron-framed, iron-clad single-gundeck warship, launched in 1860 HMS Warrior ...

Locating a historic shipwreck is only the beginning. One ancient Egyptian vessel may take us literally hundreds of years to ...

Archaeologists have spotted it on ancient coffins, sculptures, murals and ceramics. The oldest known sample of Egyptian blue decorates a small alabaster bowl dating to 3250 B.C.E.

With deadly bronze rams and engineering precision, Greek triremes were the ancient world’s missile cruisers—slim, fast, and absolutely unforgiving. Credit: EDSITEment, Public Domain. The geometry ...

The Nemi ships were destroyed in the final stages of World War II. On the night of May 31, 1944, a fire broke out in the Museum of Roman Ships at Lake Nemi, where the ships were housed. The fire ...

The Decalogue Stone was found beneath what looked like an ancient wooden platform, the sort that was sometimes found in these old mounds. It didn’t keep a lot of people from scorning Wyrick and making ...

Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed.

An ancient wooden Egyptian falcon. Inset: A powder developed by WSU for research into Egyptian blue. (Composite featuring photos by Matt Unger and Joshua Franzos, Carnegie Museum of Natural History) ...