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 shipwreck and ...

The San Jose was a marvel of 17th century technology. The Spanish galleon weighed more than a thousand tons, was made of wood ...

For centuries, the Portuguese coast has hidden a graveyard of lost ships, many still carrying their gold, silver, and untold ...

Underwater artifacts make up a small proportion of colonial-era heritage, but as their number increases, the time is ripe for ...