A community in northern Vietnam got to test their archaeological skills when a fish pond construction project turned into an excavation following the discovery of buried ancient boats. Members of the ...

More than a century after its discovery, Scandinavia’s oldest plank boat is finally giving up new secrets. By analyzing ...

Beneath the shifting waters of Alexandria's eastern harbor, on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, lie the drowned remnants of a once-splendid city—ports, palaces and temples swallowed by the sea. Submerged ...

The remains of an ancient wooden boat that was discovered recently in Ukraine have disappeared in what may be a case of antiquities theft. Fishermen found the oak boat in Ukraine's northern Chernihiv ...

The Hjortspring Boat as it is currently displayed at the National Museum of Denmark. “Finding a fingerprint on the tar fragments from the boat was a big surprise for us. Fingerprints like this one are ...

Coal miners in Serbia have discovered the remains of a large wooden boat likely used by the Romans to supply a nearby city and military headquarters on the empire's frontier. Archaeologists are ...

Archaeologists recently discovered the remnants of an ancient Egyptian “pleasure boat” near the ruins of Cleopatra VII’s lost palace in Alexandria’s royal harbor. The discovery was announced by the ...