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 Campania. The two Roman-age marble altars, datable to the first half of
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 ROV – with a camera down to the seabed in the middle
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 first launched in 1629 and was built by the same master shipbuilder
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 Atitlán, situated in the highlands of Guatemala, about 5,000 feet above sea
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 a very long time ago. Researchers have debated the existence of Atlantis
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 in Syria, and has one of the two main ports of the
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 (going back to the Chalcolithic (Copper Age) than previously believed, and is
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 History (INAH). The wreck of the Cuban-based paddle-wheel steamboat was found in
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 1644. On a cool October day in 1644, the Danish Navy suffered
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 in the region of the Iznik district of the province of Bursa,
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 reveals many of the characteristics of the fluit. Badewanne.fi The wreck od
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 Oceanographic Institution. “We’ve been holding this under wraps out of respect for
