It details the historical attempts to construct the canal, starting from ancient Egypt to the successful completion in 1869 by Ferdinand de Lesseps. The documentary highlights the economic ...

Merchant ships lacked speed and dexterity ... Richard Schlecht/NGS In 1965 the wreckage of an ancient, small, single-masted merchant boat was discovered on the bottom of the sea off the coast ...

Named after Charles Waln Morgan, a New Bedford merchant, she sailed until 1921, later serving as a storage hulk. Donated to Mystic Seaport Museum in 1941, she underwent restoration and serves as ...

In an extraordinary archaeological survey of the disputed South China Sea, Chinese marine experts claim to have found three ancient merchant ships, as reported first by SMCP. According to a report ...

Chinese marine researchers say they have discovered three ancient merchant ships in an unprecedented archaeological sweep of the contested South China Sea. The wrecks were found in the vast ...

Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire by Sarah E. Bond assembles a case for the power of the worker in ...

WASHINGTON, June 27 (Reuters) - When scientists in the 1960s excavated the wreck of an ancient Greek merchant ship off ... opens new tab just last week. "Ships were a critical source of ...