A recent deep-sea archaeological expedition in the South China Sea has led to the discovery and recovery of over 900 artifacts from two ancient shipwrecks dating back to the Ming dynasty (1368-1644).

Golden sunlight fell on the two amphorae, still caked in brown ooze, as they breached the Mediterranean’s waves. Their ascent from the seafloor, more than a mile down and 60 miles from land, had taken ...

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery in the depths of the South China Sea - a pair of 500-year-old shipwrecks brimming with valuable insights into the Silk Road trade, reported by China's ...

HAIKOU, 17 June (BelTA - Xinhua) - About 150 kilometers southeast of Sanya City in China's southern island province of Hainan, at a depth of about 1,500 meters beneath the deep blue sea, lie two ...

China's three deep-sea manned submersibles have completed 1,746 dives to date, the Institute of Deep-sea Science and ...

The ship's control room. The jars were fully retrieved from the depths of the sea in a complex operation by Energean. A ship’s cargo from 3,300—3,400 years ago (14-13th centuries BCE), with hundreds ...

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The shipwreck of the SS Republic (1865). Experimental deep-sea archaeology. Part 1: Fieldwork & site history / Neil Cunningham Dobson, Ellen Gerth and J. Lange Winckler -- The shipwreck of the SS ...

In the depths of the Caribbean Sea, a ship lost for over three centuries is once again stirring global currents—political, cultural, and legal. Last week, Colombian archaeologists announced the ...

By Elizabeth Claire Alberts U.S.-led plans to mine the deep seabed have gained momentum since President Donald Trump signed an executive order that called for the industry’s rapid formation to bolster ...

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