Picture the Pacific Ocean of the 16th century. Spanish Galleons sail the wide open seas, carrying precious cargo like silver, porcelain, and textiles. The waters are dangerous; ship logs show ...

In the 16th century, explorers’ sailing ships were the backbone of the Age of Exploration, enabling voyages across vast oceans to discover new lands, establish trade routes, and map the unknown ...

French officials recently announced the discovery of Camarat 4, the deepest shipwreck ever found in French waters. The site includes 16th-century Italian ceramics with Christian symbols.

Remains of the ship date back to the 16th Century and could shed new light on the time period's ship building and seafaring.

A 16th-century painting stolen from an English manor house and later recovered at a bus stop has sold for an astonishing $22.3 million. “The Rest on the Flight into Egypt,” is an early work by ...

The French Navy recently found the deepest-ever shipwreck in French waters, a 16th-century vessel with preserved cargo of faience pitchers from Liguria, Italy.

Scientists have recreated the face of a 16th-century woman with a brick jammed into her mouth, an object apparently wedged there to stop her from eating the dead — as Italian locals believed she ...

As Smithsonian reports, a new study published in the journal American Antiquity links America’s first domestic cats to a 16th-century shipwreck.

The French navy discovered a remarkable 16th-century shipwreck of a merchant vessel, Camarat 4, at a record depth of 8,200 feet, preserving ceramic artifacts.

While dredging a flooded quarry for gravel, workers in Kent, England, stumbled upon the remains of a ship dating back to the 16th century. Unsure of what they’d unearthed, they turned the ...

The remains of a rare 16th-century vessel were unexpectedly unearthed along the English coastline by quarry workers last year, archaeologists said. Workers for CEMEX, a building materials company ...

Timbers from the hull of a 16th-century ship have been found in a flooded quarry in southeastern England.