What first looked like a scatter of junk on the seabed off southern England has turned out to be one of the most revealing ...

More than 80 years after its loss, the Royal Australian Navy has located the shipwreck of the legendary Second World War ...

The recovery of a cache of Korean celadon from the West Sea has produced a sight that seems to defy time: bowls that spent ...

Egypt, third millennium b.c. The Great Pyramid of Giza is both the oldest of the Seven Wonders and the only one still standing. Built by the pharaoh Khufu (reigned ca. 2551–2528 b.c.) to serve as his ...

Rescue archaeology is carried out in areas threatened by human or natural agency. We’ve collated some of the best rescue projects that have been highlighted in Current Archaeology over the past year.

Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a sort of prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore.

Caleb Bigham · In the wake of the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking, it may surprise readers to know that centuries-old Great Lakes ships are still being uncovered on a regular basis ...

Poole Museum now showcases the earliest English medieval shipwreck discovered off Studland's coast. The 13th-century ship, found by Bournemouth University maritime archaeologists in 2020, is central ...

The once–noisy excavation site on Pulau Melaka, filled with the rumble of machinery and the shouts of expedition crew, ...

Last month, divers off the coast of South Korea retrieved 87 bowls and cups from the dark, swirling waters. The objects were ...

“Our skipper said ‘Have you ever dived this mark? We said, ‘No, because it’s rubbish, there’s nothing there,’” Bournemouth ...

This photo in the Library of Congress shows the “remains of the wooden steamboat Celt wrecked along Bowman’s Jetty,” in Charleston Harbor, according to the SC Marine Researcher Division. The Celt is ...