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We were all wondering what that big, chonky ship that Saw Gerrera's Partisans use in Andor Season 2. It's a YV-865 ...
Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch.
In 1839, Sengbe Pieh, also known as Joseph Cinque, along with hundreds of others from the West African village of Mendeland, ...
Archaeologists in Australia have discovered a 19th century Dutch merchant shipwreck that went down off the country's coast ...
Marine archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery off the coast of Costa Rica, shedding new light on a mystery that has ...
Marine archaeologists uncover two 18th-century Danish slave ships in Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica. Learn about the 1710 ...
The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but ...
The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off ...
In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...
In 1710, two Danish slave ships got lost in some smog while sailing through the Caribbean and ultimately became shipwrecked ...
The ships were found in the early 1800s, but scientists have only recently pieced together their history. Researchers have ...
Two shipwrecks off Costa Rica were long thought to be the remains of pirate ships, but new analyses reveal that they were ...