Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Marine archaeologists from the Viking Ship Museum have found the last of the three wrecked warships from the  ‘Battle of the Fehmarnbelt’ in 1644. On a cool October day in 1644, the Danish Navy suffered

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The underwater remains of a 1,500-year-old basilica in honor of St. Neophytos has re-emerged from a lake due to the effects of a drought in the region of the Iznik district of the province of Bursa,

AncientPages.com – New details from the successful search for the three-century old San José ship, called the “holy grail of shipwrecks,” have been released by WHOI (the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. “We’ve been holding this under wraps out of respect for

AncientPages.com – Swedish Maritime divers discovered two shipwrecks, including one possibly dating back to the 14th century. Occasionally old vessels are found in the Baltic Sea’s graveyard with at least 100 intact old shipwrecks resting on the seabed. Most of them

AncientPages.com – For the first time in thousands of years, sacred Mayan underwater tunnels in Mexico’s Yucatan are being rediscovered, say researchers from Mexico’s National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH). In the tunnel-like caves, INAH researchers have discovered human bones, and

AncientPages.com – Three shipwrecks packed with stunning artifacts dating back to the Roman era have been found underwater on the seabed of northern coastal province of Alexandria. The findings include a votive bark, or boat, depicting Egyptian god Osiris and a crystal

AncientPages.com – Archaeologists continue to analyze the old remains of the Danish medieval warship “Gribshunden” (Griffin-Hound), discovered at the bottom of the sea off the Swedish coast. In 2016, a group of divers transported parts of the ship, including the colorful figurehead, back

AncientPages.com – The 2,700-year-old ceramic sculpture of a Cypriot goddess was discovered off the coast of the Bozburun, in the western province of Muğla’s Marmaris, Turkey. The sculpture is probably the biggest one in the history of Turkish underwater history. Researchers

AncientPages.com – The wreck of an ancient ship has been discovered off the coast of Salento. It is believed the wreck dates back to either the 12th or 13th century. The sunken ship, made almost entirely of wood and measuring 18 metres by

AncientPages.com – In Greece, underwater excavations of Lechaion, ancient Corinth’s partially submerged harbour town, reveal the infrastructure of more than a thousand years of flourishing maritime trade. Researchers from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports and the University of

AncientPages.com – Researchers deployed an underwater robot to take a closer look at a mass of tiles that sank into the seabed off Hatsushima island in Atami while being transported by ship during the Edo Period (1603-1867). During the two-day study