The region’s geographical proximity to Costa Rica, coupled with growing economic ties and cultural affinities, led its inhabitants to consider a bold move: voluntary annexation to Costa Rica. On that ...

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday.

(CNN) — Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica that were previously believed to be pirate ships are 18th-Century Danish slave ships that have been missing for centuries.

Historical sources record that two Danish ships, Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, were lost in fog and blown off course near the coast of current-day Costa Rica.