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Largest POW grave site: In 1944, the Japanese hellship Hōfuku Maru sank with over 1,000 Allied POWs aboard; in 2026, forgotten military documents led to a discovery no one expected 80 years laterA Japanese prison transport ship, the Hōfuku Maru, sunk in 1944, has been found off the Philippines coast. This discovery brings to light t...- Musket balls and a burnt hull: First shipwrecks linked to Pirates of the Caribbean discovered in Nassau Harbor, The BahamasNassau, Bahamas, once a pirate haven, has yielded six shipwrecks. Three wrecks are linked to the Golden Age of Piracy. These discoveries ar...
- In 1972, a diver off Italy noticed a human arm rising from the sand, which uncovered ancient Greek warriors lost beneath the sea for centuriesIn an underwater adventure in 1972, a diver stumbled upon the exquisite Riace Bronzes off the coast of Riace Marina. These stunning Greek s...
- In 1900, sponge divers hiding from a storm found a machine underwater that changed what we know about ancient GreeceA routine sponge diving trip near Antikythera in 1900 led to the discovery of an ancient shipwreck. Among its treasures were corroded bronz...
- In 1831, a man digging into a Scottish sandbank found carved ivory figures that rewrote medieval historyIn 1831, a man on the Isle of Lewis unearthed the remarkable Lewis Chessmen, carved from walrus ivory. These pieces reveal a sophisticated ...
- What a Turkish diver found underwater in 1982 became one of the most important shipwreck discoveries in Mediterranean archaeologyA Turkish sponge diver's discovery of "metal biscuits with ears" in 1982 led to the unearthing of the Uluburun wreck, a remarkably intact L...
- Construction workers uncovered six centuries old shipwrecks buried beneath the same siteAn ordinary infrastructure project in Sweden has unearthed an extraordinary past. Six shipwrecks, dating from the Middle Ages to the 17th c...
- Buried in Sicily’s Shallow Waters: How a 2,500-Year-Old Greek Shipwreck Is Revealing the Secrets of Mediterranean TradeIn 2025, archaeologists discovered a remarkably preserved ancient Greek merchant vessel off the coast of Sicily, dating back to the 6th or ...
- Hundreds of Ancient Ceramics Survived 2,000 Years Underwater and Here’s WhyDivers off Turkey's Antalya coast found a 2,000-year-old shipwreck. The vessel carried hundreds of ceramic plates, bowls, and trays, remark...
- Mystery in the Mediterranean Explained: Who Sank the 16th-Century Camarat 4 2,567 Meters Below?French naval researchers discovered Camarat 4, a 16th-century merchant shipwreck, in March 2025. This is the deepest shipwreck found in Fre...
- Luxury steamship that sank, resurfaced — then sank again found after 150 yearsAfter a 150-year absence, the luxury steamer Lac La Belle has been discovered in Lake Michigan. Veteran explorer Paul Ehorn and his team lo...
- Millions of gold coins, jewelry buried in the Caribbean Sea. US, or Colombia, who will take it home?Millions of gold coins, chests full of jewels and gold, and more than 600 passengers were on the ship 'San Jose' when an English squadron i...
- Colombia's quest for a multi-billion-dollar sunken treasure amid legal disputeColombia faces a legal quagmire in its quest to recover the Spanish galleon San José, a sunken treasure valued at up to $20 billion. Presid...
- Titanic artifacts recovery plan canceled. Know cause, relation to Titan submersible implosionIn the aftermath of the implosion of Titan's submersible and the death of four people, the plan to retrieve Titanic artifacts has been canc...
- Fatal attraction: Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a submariner who feared the Titan sub, but couldn’t resist the TitanicThe presence of Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a renowned French submariner, on the ill-fated Titan submarine that repeatedly dove into the Titanic,...
- Two rare shipwrecks near ‘Isle of Wight’ get protected statusThe two shipwrecks were discovered to belong to the 17th and 18th centuries. The wrecks were among the 240 additions to the National Herita...
- New Titanic footage heralds next stage in deep-sea tourismExploration of the shipwreck may attract tourists ready to pay top dollar, but it has also raised many ethical questions.
- 1,200-year-old shipwreck found off coast of Israel. See why is it specialRecently, archaeologists discovered a 1,200-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Israel. A report describes it as a merchant ship, indicatin...
- Robotic submarine discovers centuries-old shipwreck in USThe wreck appears to date back to the late 18th or early 19th century, a time when a young US was expanding its trade with the rest of the ...
- China sets off for excavation in disputed South China SeaA Chinese archaeological team has embarked on a journey to excavate a shipwreck near Shanhu Island in South China Sea.
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