The ship likely went down earlier than scientists once thought, between 296 to 271 BCE, with a strong probability that the ship foundered somewhere between 286 to 272 BCE.

These remains of the Greek merchant ship from the 4th century BC lay off the coast of Komiža and were from a crucial period ...

Divers have spent decades exploring Greece's ancient Antikythera wreck. The latest expedition found relics and retrieved ...

A replica of a treasure ship that Admiral Zheng He (1371-1433) sailed in. The ship was on display in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Thursday and is to make its maiden voyage in 2014.

2004-10-28 04:00:00 PDT Hof Dor, Israel-- An archaeologist's dog may have discovered the first ship ever found from the period of King David and his son, Solomon, who ruled the holy land 3, 000 ...

Thirty feet under the surface of the cold, murky Baltic Sea, Brendan Foley spotted something unusual in the wreckage of an ancient ship. Foley, AG95, a marine archaeologist and researcher at Lund ...

Ancient Egyptians depended on the Nile River in life and in death. ... wooden ships were commonly found in tombs of Egyptians of different status. Just like full-sized vessels along the Nile, ...

The wooden ship sank about 55 miles off Israel's Mediterranean coast and was discovered at a depth of 1.1 miles by Energean, a natural gas company which operates a number of deep-sea natural gas ...

Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

Marine archaeologists have recovered ancient treasures from the wreck of the Mentor, a ship used by the controversial Lord Elgin to transport a hoard of artifacts taken from Greece.