In July 1860, the Clotilda—the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States—landed in Mobile, Alabama. The wooden ...

A scuba diver's unexpected find of historic wagon parts beneath the river's surface offers a direct link to the 1800s. These ...

The excavation of the wreck lasted 10 years, and the total working time came to be three to four months, according to Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology's website, which has an exhibit ...

A remarkably well-preserved shipwreck from the Late Hellenistic - Early Roman period has been discovered off Antalya’s coast ...

George F. Bass answers the phone and announces that he’s dripping wet. Well, what else would you expect from the father of underwater archaeology? But he hasn’t just emerged from the depths of ...

The first, called Mazarrón I, was initially located in 1993, lifted from the water in June 1995, and put on display at Spain's National Museum of Underwater Archaeology in 2005 after undergoing ...

Hailed as the birthplace of underwater archaeology in the 1960s, ... Türkiye and its shipwrecks are an integral part of the birth of underwater archeology. Bodrum Museum .

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis recently visited the construction site of a new underwater archaeology museum in Piraeus, near Athens, which is scheduled to officially open in 2026.

Underwater archaeologist and author David Gibbins discusses his new book about shipwrecks around the world. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...