Imagine that you are a merchant in 17th-century Mexico. With bated breath, you stand at the harbor of Acapulco, eagerly ...

On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen and leading to a U.S. declaration ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

The San Jose was a marvel of 17th century technology. The Spanish galleon weighed more than a thousand tons, was made of wood ...

For centuries, the Portuguese coast has hidden a graveyard of lost ships, many still carrying their gold, silver, and untold ...

Underwater artifacts make up a small proportion of colonial-era heritage, but as their number increases, the time is ripe for ...

Bengali textile workers were not enslaved as ancillary to men or as commodities of pleasure alone. They were enslaved and ...

A drawn-out international case of finders keepers is drawing to a close, and the stakes have never been higher.

The integration of SIRTAP of the Juan Carlos I will focus on command and control, combat system integration and navigation support, including take-off and ...

A Norwegian ship suspected of being involved in "serious damage" to an underwater telecoms cable between Latvia and Sweden has been boarded by police. The Silver Dania cargo vessel, with an all ...

The San José Galleon was once part of the mighty Spanish Armada, which Spain used to become a massive colonial empire. The British sank the ship off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia in 1708, during ...

The trial in Colombia involving treasure hunters determines Spain's sovereign immunity over the Carrera de Indias, amid the government's inaction and protests from indigenous nations in Bolivia. The ...