Tudor Armor-Piercing Cannonballs?
Cannonballs recovered from the Mary Rose wreck in England have been shown to contain iron cores, allowing the cannons to punch the shot through enemy vessels.read more
View ArticleGenerous donors complete funding for the Mary Rose Museum
The final UK£35,000 needed to complete the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, England's Historic Dockyard has been raised thanks to a plea by the Mary Rose Trust. Museum officials are "putting the...
View ArticlePondering Ponce de León
The State of Florida is celebrating its 500th birthday, including debates about the exploration of Juan Ponce de León, who landed on the peninsula on April 2, 1513. St. Augustine is the traditional...
View Article"Lizzy" may have belonged to Sir Walter Raleigh
Shipwreck diver Todd Stevens hopes he has found a gem at the bottom of the ocean near the Isles of Scilly in the form of the Lizzy, a shipwreck which may have belonged to Sir Walter Raleigh. Raleigh...
View ArticleMary Rose cannonballs early examples of armour-piercing rounds
The Mary Rose, the flagship of Henry VIII found on the ocean floor off the south coast of England, may once again change English history. Scientists studying cannonballs discovered on the ship have...
View ArticleNew Exhibitions Centre to host Viking ship at British Museum
The British Museum will introduce the world to its new World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre with its premiere exhibit focusing on Vikings, and will include the largest known Viking ship. In...
View ArticleWasaga under Siege and Sails on the St. Mary seek re-enactors
Building on the huge success of past Wasaga under Siege events, the Historic Military Establishment of Upper Canada in partnership with the Town of Wasaga Beach, Ontario Parks, Town of Collingwood and...
View ArticleDetailed map created of underwater town in England
Archaeologists have created a detailed map of the medieval port city of Dunwich, dubbed "Britain's Atlantis" because it sank into the sea centuries ago. Using both high-tech imaging and historic...
View ArticleBored Viking Carved Outline of His Foot on Ship Deck
Two foot outlines, a right and a left, were recently noticed on removable deck planking on the Viking Gokstad Ship.read more
View ArticlePhotos of the Mary Rose
CNN goes inside the new Mary Rose museum in Portsmouth, England. The Mary Rose was a warship that sank in 1545 during a battle with the French.read more
View ArticleThe Mary Rose sails again in her new home
More than 30 years after the Mary Rose was pulled from the Solent, the ship continues to delight and educate both scholars and visitors to her new museum. In her new home, the Mary Rose can be viewed...
View ArticleWrecked merchant ship salvaged off coast of Vietnam
After five long months of battling sand and seawater off the coast of the Binh Son district in Vietnam, experts have recovered a wealth of 14th century artifacts from a shipwreck, possibly associated...
View ArticleDouble Viking ship burial discovered in Estonia
A team of workers laying electrical cable through the village of Salme on the island of Saaremaa in Estonia were stunned to stumble across a early Viking era ship burial containing the remains of...
View ArticleRemains of medieval boat found near Loddon, England
Archaeologist Heather Wallis is excited about the "particularly significant" discovery of a boat dating from between 1400 and 1600 CE during excavations of a drainage dyke near near Loddon, England....
View ArticleSCAdian joins the crew for Pirates of The High Seas Festival
Marcel Hildebrand is a pirate, or at least he was recently when he participated in the Pirates of The High Seas Festival at Pier Park in Panama City Beach, Florida. Scott Carroll of the News Herald...
View ArticleUniversity of Southampton receives grant to study Roman ports
The European Research Council has awarded the University of Southampton a EU€2.49m (UK£2.1m) grant to study 31 roman ports in nine countries. The study will focus on ports in the Mediterranean region...
View ArticleCandelabra might be key to medieval Spanish navigation
In 1970, a diver off the coast of Spain found a rare 10th century bronze candelabra. Since then, experts have studied the artifact as verification of a trade routes between Spanish cities and southern...
View ArticleAnd it even worked after dark!
In another argument against the barbarism of the Vikings, researchers have discovered that a small compass could have worked with other tools, such as a pair of crystals and a flat, wooden slab, to...
View ArticleSanta Maria found?
“All the geographical, underwater topography and archaeological evidence strongly suggests that this wreck is Columbus’ famous flagship, the Santa Maria,” said underwater archaeologist Barry Clifford...
View ArticleWasaga under Siege coming to Ontario in August, 2014
Wasaga under Siege 2014 & the 200th Commemoration of Battle of Nottawasaga Bay and the Sinking of HMS Nancy, August 14th-17th 2014.read more
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