Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery off the coast of Costa Rica, identifying two 18th-century shipwrecks as Danish slave ships rather than pirate vessels as previously believed. The ships, ...

Two shipwrecks located in the shallow waters off Costa Rica’ Cahuita National Park were long believed by locals to be those ...

This is one of the most dramatic events in Denmark’s maritime history — and now we know where it happened,” said marine ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica that were previously believed to be pirate ships are ...

Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been ...

The track guides us through a narrative adopting the perspective of a duplicitous recruiter, enticing Africans onto slave ships with promises of paradise across the ocean. Newman doesn’t go for the ...

Also documented are details on nearly 221,000 individuals involved with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, including ship captains and the humans they trafficked. The project's website, launched in ...

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Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile sites on Earth. This rendering of the Titanic is based on 715,000 photos ...

A glass elevator takes visitors down 70 feet to enter its exhibition on slavery and civil rights. The initial display has wreckage from a slave ship that sunk in 1794, drowning 212. Most of them were ...

It will turn existing sheep grazing fields along Dry Cedar Creek into a disturbing resemblance to a slave ship cargo hold – maximized population density for superior profits.