Underwater Discoveries Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two ancient shipwrecks, most likely dated to the mid-Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), were discovered about 1,500 meters under the sea level in South China Sea,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An enormous, rare cargo of 1,800-year-old marble artifacts, borne in a merchant ship that was shipwrecked in a storm, was uncovered in the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Visitors to the beautiful island of Korcula, the supposed birthplace of Marco Polo in Croatia, can admire wonderful dense pine forests, beautiful buildings,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Last year, scientists reported sonar images revealed an intriguing shipwreck at the bottom of Lake Mjøsa in Norway. New video footage has caught a
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. But we rarely look underwater and, as they say, out of sight
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists have discovered an amazing ancient temple with marble altars at the bottom of the sea of Pozzuoli in the Italian region of
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Jan Bartek- AncientPages.com - The discovery was completely unexpected. The crew on board the Norwegian research ship G.O. Sars sent an unmanned remotely operated underwater vehicle – an
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Marine archaeologists from Vrak - Museum of Wreck have found the wreck of the naval vessel Äpplet, Vasa's sister ship. The ship was
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists are exploring an ancient lost Maya city hidden inside a volcanic crater. Hundreds of years ago, in the middle of Lake
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The legendary lost continent of Atlantis appears in ancient myths and legends worldwide. Ancient people were familiar with a marvelous land that vanished
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An ancient port believed to date back to the Roman-era has been discovered off the Syrian coast of Tartus, an important trade center
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A submerged prehistoric settlement on the Black Sea coast, has been discovered by underwater archaeologists. The settlement was inhabited around 1,000 years earlier
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The shipwreck that in the 1850’s carried Mayan people into slavery has been identified by archaeologists of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Marine archaeologists from the Viking Ship Museum have found the last of the three wrecked warships from the 'Battle of the Fehmarnbelt' in
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are several strange underwater formations in Canada and America that for some reason have never been properly examined. Could these submerged ruins
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The underwater remains of a 1,500-year-old basilica in honor of St. Neophytos has re-emerged from a lake due to the effects of a drought
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of volunteer Finnish divers accidentally discovered the Dutch 17th-century shipwreck in the Baltic Sea water at 85 meters depth. The wreck
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Our oceans are greatly unexplored and full of secrets. Deep beneath the waters there are marvelous ruins of lost ancient civilizations. These ancient
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - A mysterious ancient underwater structure hidden beneath MacDonald Lake reveals traces of a lost civilization present in Ontario, Canada thousands of years ago.
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - New details from the successful search for the three-century old San José ship, called the “holy grail of shipwrecks,” have been released by WHOI (the Woods Hole
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A 7,000-year -old Native American underwater burial site has been discovered off the coast of Florida, near the Venice shoreline. Archaeologists now hope this discovery leads to
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Swedish Maritime divers discovered two shipwrecks, including one possibly dating back to the 14th century. Occasionally old vessels are found in the Baltic Sea's graveyard with at
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - For the first time in thousands of years, sacred Mayan underwater tunnels in Mexico's Yucatan are being rediscovered, say researchers from Mexico's National Anthropology and History Institute
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Two years ago, researchers from Japan discovered pillars of an underwater structure in Japan's largest freshwater lake - Lake Biwako. Now, an ancient, almost intact pottery
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Three shipwrecks packed with stunning artifacts dating back to the Roman era have been found underwater on the seabed of northern coastal province of Alexandria. The findings
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - On July 22, 1361, death came to Gotland, an island in Sweden. Locals heard rumors King Valdemar IV Atterdag and his powerful Danish fleet
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists continue to analyze the old remains of the Danish medieval warship “Gribshunden” (Griffin-Hound), discovered at the bottom of the sea off the Swedish coast. In 2016, a group
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The 2,700-year-old ceramic sculpture of a Cypriot goddess was discovered off the coast of the Bozburun, in the western province of Muğla’s Marmaris, Turkey. The sculpture is
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists believe they may have found a submerged seaside palace built more than 2,200 years ago by China’s first emperor, Ying Zheng, mainland media reports. The building,
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The wreck of an ancient ship has been discovered off the coast of Salento. It is believed the wreck dates back to either the 12th or 13th century. The
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - In Greece, underwater excavations of Lechaion, ancient Corinth’s partially submerged harbour town, reveal the infrastructure of more than a thousand years of flourishing maritime trade. Researchers
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Researchers deployed an underwater robot to take a closer look at a mass of tiles that sank into the seabed off Hatsushima island in Atami while being
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A suspected shrine that dates back to late Edo Period (1603-1867) has been discovered by underwater archaeology research group working in the area of Lake Biwako, Japan's
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists began the first round of excavation on Sunday of a much-sought sunken warship that was confirmed late last month to be the Zhiyuan, a famous
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Underwater Discoveries
A 5,000-year-old and previously unknown underwater route has been uncovered by archaeologists working off the coast of Silifke in Mersin, in the southern Turkey. Now researchers will determine
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News
AncientPages.com -Dr Martin Bates from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David will take deep sea core samples to find the DNA of Doggerland, where humans lived in
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A team of Greek and Swiss underwater archaeologists have discovered the remnants of a Bronze Age Greek village, now covered by the Mediterranean Sea and within sight of
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A mystery lies scattered on the unexplored bottom of Fuxian Lake, stretching out through Chengjiang County, Jiangchuan County and Huaning County in Yunnan Province,
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Cynthia McKanzie - AncientPages.com - Most people associate the Bermuda Triangle with mysterious disappearances of aircraft and ships. The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Buried beneath the deep waters lie ruins of fascinating and marvelous ancient kingdoms that today are nothing but lost memories of the past.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient sunken city of Baiae is located just 30 minutes northwest of Naples, Italy. Baiae was one of the most important cities of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Once a long time ago, this unique place was inhabited by an advanced civilization. Then, something happened and the city vanished consumed by
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