A new study reveals how ships guided ancient civilizations through crisis, helping regions trade, defend, and endure the ...

TEL AVIV — A company drilling for natural gas off the coast of northern Israel discovered a 3,300-year-old ship and its cargo, one of the oldest known examples of a ship sailing far from land, the ...

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We’ve talked about some very old wooden ships before, whether original or replicas, but this one might just be the oldest one yet. The shipwreck of an ancient vessel was used to create a replica that ...

In 1998, the first of many Roman-era ships was unearthed in the ‘Pompeii of the sea.’ Archaeologists wanted to know how they got there. The Alkedo, a Roman military surveillance craft, sank in the ...