ROME, July 28 (Xinhua) — An ancient Greek trading ship that has lain on the seabed off the coast of Gela in southern Sicily for 2,500 years was brought to the surface for the first time on Monday  Read More →

Archaeologists have discovered traces of Switzerland’s oldest known building, but it will never draw tourists: it lies underwater in the middle of a lake.  Read More →

Serious investors are putting money into a business once the preserve of buccaneers On the bridge of the Odyssey Explorer the talk was not about stocks and shares but about the Spanish patrol boats at the entrance to Gibraltar’s port, waiting to search her hold for hidden treasure.  Read More →

VERMILION, Ohio, USA – The wreckage of a steamship that sank in 1850 after its boilers exploded has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Erie.  Read More →

Chinese archaeologists have recovered around 10,000 pieces of antique pottery and porcelain in an underwater excavation of a shipwreck believed to date back to the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) in the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea.  Read More →

Two well-preserved 18th Century shipwrecks, found by a team of Bristol archaeologists in the Caribbean, could shed new light on life in the 1700s.  Read More →

The search, by American oceanographer Robert Ballard, will be conducted in international waters, with the Greek culture ministry hoping to send a representative to observe operations, a ministry official said.  Read More →

London, England: Three amateur divers trying to free snagged lobster pots have discovered the well-preserved remains of what is thought to be 17th century warship Resolution.  Read More →

CAESAREA, Israel: Above the glistening waves off the shores of the Israeli city of Caesarea, a group of scuba divers suit up to begin their descent into history.  Read More →

ATHENS, GreeceA Greek fisherman has handed over to authorities a large section of an ancient bronze statue brought up in his nets in the Aegean Sea, officials said.  Read More →