Shipwrecks
Latest about shipwrecks
![Baris barge](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cTA7fSP539t9xLCCaJabun-320-80.jpeg)
2,500 Years Ago, Herodotus Described a Weird Ship. Now, Archaeologists Have Found it.
By Laura Geggel published
One of the most elusive boats from the ancient world — a mysterious river barge that famed Greek historian Herodotus described nearly 2,500 years ago — has finally been discovered.
![The expedition to find Ernest Shackleton's lost wreck in Antarctica's Weddell Sea has turned back due to worsening weather and ice.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/is3pfogZBVqV2LRtkC6Fpk-320-80.jpg)
Search for Shackleton's Antarctic Shipwreck Turns Back to Avoid Deadly Ice Trap
By Tom Metcalfe published
The wreck may be lying on the seafloor near the Larsen C Ice Shelf.
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Remains of USS Hornet, Storied WWII Aircraft Carrier, Discovered at Bottom of South Pacific
By Laura Geggel published
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Why Archaeologists Used a 'Ray Gun' to Blast This Ancient Shipwreck Pottery
By Mindy Weisberger published
To trace the origins of ancient pottery, scientists used a method that sounds like it's borrowed from science fiction.
![Antarctic shipwreck Endurance](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vqVzDuZN7cxxzdihuGDGMc-320-80.jpg)
Shackleton's Lost Ship May Lie at the Bottom of Antarctica's Weddell Sea
By Tom Metcalfe published
Polar explorer Shackleton abandoned the ship Endurance in 1915, after the vessel was crushed by sea ice.
![The grenade consisted of a hollow iron shell filled with gunpowder, which would have been lit by a fuse that passed through the shell.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zcUuoVLjbahFmbhXgPXg2H-320-80.jpg)
Sunken 17th-Century 'Pirate Ship' Discovered, Alongside Gunpowder-Packed Grenades
By Tom Metcalfe published
The ship, holding military stores, sank in a storm near Dollar Cove in April of 1684.
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This Ship Sank Decades Ago. Now, a 3D Model Has Resurrected It.
By Mindy Weisberger published
A digital 3D reconstruction has recreated a ship that sank in 1995.
![Military shipwrecks dating as far back as the Revolutionary War and including ships from the Civil War and both World War I and World War II were deliberately sunk here at Mallows Bay in Maryland.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yb46EAokfcfb2pRvPG8g4V-320-80.jpg)
An Underwater 'Ghost Fleet' of Shipwrecks Is On the Move, and Here's Why
By Mindy Weisberger published
Nearly 200 military shipwrecks — dating as far back as the Revolutionary War and including ships from the Civil War and both World War I and World War II — were sunk to the bottom of a river.
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