Archaeologists uncover ancient shipwrecks and submerged harbor remains near the 2,300-year-old Greek city of Ptolemais in Libya.

A Tudor-era hull dug out of a Kent gravel quarry is filling in a crucial missing chapter of British maritime history.

Step into the world of Ancient Greece and discover how Paul's journeys transformed the course of Christianity in Europe.

Recently revealed Roman graffiti in Pompeii offer a rare glimpse into everyday life in Antiquity. Among them is a declaration of love carved nearly 2,000 years ago.

Nearly 200 years ago, the school that later became Georgetown University was free to everyone who could attend. But it was ...

The 30 best Oscar-winning performances of all time. Best Actor winners, including Meryl Streep, Denzel Washington, Robert De ...

The Chumash villages stretched from Malibu to Paso Robles. A community in Santa Paula was called mupu. Chumash lived in ta'apu in what is now Simi Valley. In Ventura, native people lived in different ...

Before Africans could be enslaved at scale, they first had to be portrayed as living outside the timeline of civilization itself. This narrative—the pre-story of slavery—made domination appear not ...

THE USS CONSTELLATION IS A FIXTURE IN BALTIMORE’S INNER HARBOR. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE PASS BY IT EVERY DAY. MOST HAVE NO IDEA THE ROLE IT PLAYED IN ENDING THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE. IN TERMS OF THE ...

The large Roman merchant vessel is believed to have sailed from North Africa Italian Ministry of Culture/X Italian police stumbled upon an ancient Roman merchant ship at the bottom of the Ionian Sea ...

On July 8, 1860, 110 kidnapped West Africans were offloaded from the ‘Clotilda’ in Alabama’s Mobile River. ‘Clotilda’ sailed in 52 years after the international trade in human beings was outlawed in ...

When the slave ship Zorg set sail for the Caribbean from the African island of São Tomé on Sept. 6, 1781, it embarked on a horrific journey that would ultimately awaken a movement to end England’s ...