Thousands of shipwrecks lie in the 4,080 square miles of the Bay and its feeder waters. The archaeologists, divers, and other ...

From rare editions to beloved classics, this enormous used bookstore in Florida is the perfect destination for a full day of literary discovery.

Colleen Jones, one of the most decorated curlers in Canadian history, passed away on Tuesday. The news hit the curling world ...

For decades, a sealed basement room sat untouched beneath an unremarkable building, its existence known to only a few and its ...

# In 1847 the Boston Daily Advertiser states that “….Cazalet’s 1st Cordage….” or ship’s ropes are for sale at Ames Ingersoll & Co. on Central Wharf. An Irish woman named Marianne Amelia Cazalet was ...

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The Damascus museum theft set off an official investigation in what may be one of Syria’s largest losses of antiquities in recent years. By Euan Ward and Reham Mourshed Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon.

For years, Treasure Island sat largely forgotten in the middle of San Francisco Bay — an awkward man-made expanse better known for its contaminated soil and shuttered naval housing than anything ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed a trove of priceless ancient jewelry and gold coins near the ruins of a historic Christian city. The treasure was found in the ancient city of Hippos near the Sea of ...

Precious artefacts snatched from Paris’s Louvre Museum on Sunday include an emerald necklace set with more than 1,000 diamonds gifted by Napoleon to his second wife and other treasures of “inestimable ...

Cleopatra is one of the most iconic figures of Ancient Egypt; yet little actual evidence remains of her reign. On a dusty desert plain, 75 miles from Cairo, archaeologist Basem Gehad is hoping to ...

Nikita Vanderbyl's research is made possible by a Local History Grant from the Public Record Office Victoria. She has an ongoing commitment to the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people to research William ...