Martin Scorsese will be honored with a lifetime achievement award by Italy's Taormina Film Festival, marking the director's return to Sicily, where he has family roots and where he has announced plans ...

Prehistoric tools and ancient anchors were recently discovered during an underwater excavation of a 2,500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sicily. The Superintendence of the Sea (SopMare), a ...

Divers exploring the centuries-old Antikythera wreck retrieved intact pieces of the ship and found artifacts that shed light on life aboard the craft. The Antikythera shipwreck dates back to the first ...

Archaeologists in France recovered 847 Roman coins from an ancient shipwreck in the Rhône River near Arles, calling it an exceptional find.

Scientists believe the find could push the boundaries of DNA analysis. Divers work next to skeletal remains found at an ancient shipwreck near the island of Antikythera, Greece, Sept. 6, 2016. Greek ...

Spanish archaeologists have successfully removed a 2,600-year-old shipwreck from waters off the country's southeastern coast, two decades after the relic was initially found, officials said. The ...

An archaic shipwreck that dates back to the 5th and 6th centuries B.C. has been discovered in the waters off the coast of Santa Maria del Focallo, municipality of Ispica, Sicily, Italy. The find also ...

The Antikythera wreck, whose mysterious hand-powered model of the solar system changed historians’ understanding of ancient technology, has been visited for a final time—for now at least. In 2012, ...

The essential illustrated guide to understanding the silent stories told by submerged vessels. The Shipwreck Decoder by ...