From desert carvings to underwater ruins, these ancient structures are so advanced that experts still can’t agree on what ...

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Now, Franck Goddio, the French underwater archaeologist who rediscovered Thonis-Heracleion, says the 82-foot-long (25-meter-long) military ship was discovered in the major canal that flowed along the ...

In a recent study by Dr. Heather McKillop and Dr. E. Cory Sills, a complete Late Classic Maya residential compound discovered ...

Scientists discovered true teeth growing on the head of the spotted ratfish, a distant shark relative. The toothed structure, called a tenaculum, helps males hold onto females during mating. Genetic ...

Archaeologists have uncovered Bronze Age artifacts, including axes, spearheads, and a disk, in the underwater village of Lake ...

Pavlopetri, a small islet in the Peloponnese, is the oldest ancient Greek city that has ever been discovered underwater.

The Philippine coast guard has released images of what appears to be a Chinese-made unmanned underwater vehicle while raising concerns over “illegal scientific research” by foreign drones in the ...

The discovery of a sunken port off the coast of Egypt may offer a puzzle piece in the longstanding search for Cleopatra’s lost tomb and glimpses into the country’s ancient maritime activity, according ...

On the evening of October 4, 1967, a group of teens near Canada’s Shag Harbour noticed strange orange lights in the sky plummeting toward the Atlantic ocean, hovering just above the water’s surface.

The 144-foot-long "F.J. King," which sank in Lake Michigan in 1886, was known as a "ghost ship" that nobody could locate ...