Marine archaeologist Billy Ray Morris says he has found the Kate Dale, a Confederate blockade runner that was carrying a load of cotton when it was burned by Union troops in 1863. The wreckage sits at the bottom of Florida’s Hillsborough River. Jon Erlandson of the University of Oregon in Eugene thinks that modern humans […]

Archaeologists will dive on the wreck of an Elizabethan ship off the coast of Alderney in the Channel Islands. “We are not just bringing up cannon, but also muskets, grenades, swords, rapiers, body armor, and helmets. This was a ship that was supplying an English army fighting in France to prevent a second Armada-style invasion […]