Off the coast of Sweden, divers discovered the wreck of a ship suspected to be the Mars, the flagship of Swedish King Erik XIV’s fleet. The warship sank in 1564 and bore more than 100 cannons and a crew of 800. On one of the wreck’s cannons was a stack of corn, the seal of the Swedish royal family, which further suggest this is, in fact, the Mars.

More than 40 medieval tombs have been uncovered at Kaliadra, on the Bulgarian coast of the Black Sea.

Traces of  Toronto’s nineteenth-century industrial past will be destroyed to make way for twenty-first-century waterfront condos.

Erosion is eating away at Samuel de Champlain’s 1604 settlement site on St. Croix Island, which is located on the border between Maine and New Brunswick, Canada. “Things wash up and you’re not really sure if it’s related to the island. It could have come down from the St. Croix River, who knows where? We won’t be able to tell yet,” said archaeologist Bert Ho.

National Geographic Daily News has photographs of the Mary Celestia, a paddle wheel steamer that ran Civil War blockades until it sank off the coast of Bermuda in 1864.

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