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Medieval 'super ship' found wrecked off Denmark is largest vessel of its kind. Via @live_science #MarineArcheology 🚢 #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
Medieval 'super ship' found wrecked off Denmark is largest vessel of its kind
Divers have unearthed the largest cog shipwreck ever discovered in a strait off Denmark, signalling a period of economic development in medieval Europe.
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January 23, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in #Denmark 🇩🇰. Via @arstechnica #MarineArcheology 🚢 #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark
The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast.
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January 19, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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How shipwrecks become 'islands of life' in barren seas. Via @sciencex.physorg #MarineArcheology 🚢 #History #MarineBiology 🌊 🐟 #Oceanography
How shipwrecks become 'islands of life' in barren seas
When a ship sinks, it is often in tragic circumstances. Beneath the waves, however, a different story unfolds: shipwrecks become the foundations of new life.
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December 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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We discovered an ancient 'party boat' in the waters of Alexandria. Here's what might have happened on board. Via @sciencex.physorg #Egypt 🇪🇬 #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology #egyptology #MarineArcheology 🚢
We discovered an ancient 'party boat' in the waters of Alexandria. Here's what might have happened on board
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…
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December 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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2,000-year-old shipwreck may be Egyptian 'pleasure barge' from last dynasty of pharaohs. Via @live_science #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology #egyptology #MarineArcheology 🚢
2,000-year-old shipwreck may be Egyptian 'pleasure barge' from last dynasty of pharaohs
Archaeologists diving off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, have discovered the remains of a 2,000-year-old "pleasure barge" from the time of the Ptolemaic period.
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December 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Scientists pull up first riches from 'Holy Grail of shipwrecks' that sank off Colombia in 1708. Via @live_science #MarineArcheology 🚢 #History #archeology
Scientists pull up first riches from 'Holy Grail of shipwrecks' that sank off Colombia in 1708
The shipwreck is considered to be one of the richest in the world and has rested at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea since 1708.
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November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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HMS Pandora is Australia's most scientifically excavated shipwreck—yet it still holds secrets. Via @sciencex.physorg #MarineArcheology 🚢 #archeology
HMS Pandora is Australia's most scientifically excavated shipwreck—yet it still holds secrets
In 1791, the British naval vessel HMS Pandora sank on the Great Barrier Reef while pursuing the mutineers from the HMS Bounty. The mutineers, led by Christian Fletcher, staged an uprising against…
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November 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Typhoon exposes centuries-old shipwreck off Vietnam port. Via @sciencex.physorg #MarineArcheology 🚢 #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
Typhoon exposes centuries-old shipwreck off Vietnam port
Severe coastal erosion caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi exposed a centuries-old shipwreck in Vietnam, providing a narrow window to salvage what experts say could be a historically significant find.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Ancient shipwrecks rewrite the story of Iron Age trade. Via @sciencex.physorg #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology #MarineArcheology 🚢
Ancient shipwrecks rewrite the story of Iron Age trade
New research out of the University of California San Diego and the University of Haifa is reshaping what we know about ancient seaborne trade in the eastern Mediterranean. Published recently in…
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October 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Here’s the real reason Endurance sank. Via @arstechnica #MarineArcheology 🚢 #History
Here’s the real reason Endurance sank
The ship wasn’t designed to withstand the powerful ice compression forces—and Shackleton knew it.
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October 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Divers recover more than 1,000 gold and silver coins from 1715 'Treasure Fleet' shipwreck in #Florida. Via @live_science #MarineArcheology 🚢 #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
Divers recover more than 1,000 gold and silver coins from 1715 'Treasure Fleet' shipwreck in Florida
Salvage work on the 1715 shipwrecks brought over 1,000 coins to the surface this summer.
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October 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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USS Arizona provides blueprint for addressing oil leakage at thousands of WWII Shipwrecks. Via @sciencex.physorg #ClimateChange 🌎♨️ #Oceanography #MarineBiology #MarineArcheology #History #Conservation
USS Arizona provides blueprint for addressing oil leakage at thousands of WWII shipwrecks
A new study published in Marine Pollution Bulletin shows that oil is still seeping from the wreck of the USS Arizona, more than 80 years after its sinking at Pearl Harbor. The study focuses on…
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October 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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WWI-Era Shipwrecks in Mallows Bay Form Ecological Sanctuary. Via @scientific_american #MarineBiology 🌊 🐟 #History #MarineArcheology 🚢
Drone Footage Reveals How History Became Habitat in the Potomac
Nearly 100 years ago dozens of ships were abandoned in a shallow bay in the Potomac River. Today plants and animals are thriving on the skeletons of these vessels
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September 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Sunk debris from World Wars provides home for wildlife. Via @sciencex.physorg #MarineBiology 🌊 🐟 #Oceanography #MarineArcheology 🚢 #History #Conservation #WildLife #Zoology #Nature
Sunk debris from World Wars provides home for wildlife
More marine life is living on some World War II munitions disposed of on the Baltic Sea's seabed than on the sediment surrounding it. The findings, reported in a paper in Communications Earth &…
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September 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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What does a sunk Swedish galleon teach us about the perils of ignoring science? ‘Take no one’s word for it’ | Via @guardian #MarineArcheology 🚢 #History #engineering ⚙️🛠️🔧🔬🧰 #Science 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬
What does a sunk Swedish galleon teach us about the perils of ignoring science? ‘Take no one’s word for it’ | Elizabeth Finkel
As scientific institutions and truths come under attack in the US, how well protected is Australia against the assault on science and facts?
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September 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Terra Nova: Captain Scott’s polar ship filmed on the sea floor. Via @bbc #MarineArcheology 🚢 #History
Terra Nova: Captain Scott’s polar ship filmed on the sea floor
The Terra Nova carried Captain Scott and his men on their doomed expedition to the South Pole.
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September 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Archaeologists locate 'La Fortuna,' a Spanish ship that exploded in 1748 along North Carolina's coast. Via @live_science #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology #MarineArcheology 🚢
Archaeologists locate 'La Fortuna,' a Spanish ship that exploded in 1748 along North Carolina's coast
Four shipwrecks newly discovered on the North Carolina coast date to colonial times, including one that blew up during an attack.
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August 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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English warship sunk in 1703 storm gives up its secrets three centuries on. Via @guardian #MarineArcheology 🚢
English warship sunk in 1703 storm gives up its secrets three centuries on
Archaeologists in race to study HMS Northumberland as shifting sands expose part of well-preserved wreck
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August 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Shipwreck fragment linked to one of WWII’s strangest rescue tales. Via @popsci #MarineArcheology 🚢 #History
Shipwreck fragment linked to one of WWII’s strangest rescue tales
Coconut trees helped saved the USS New Orleans after a torpedo hit.
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July 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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300-year-old pirate-plundered shipwreck that once held 'eyewatering treasure' discovered off Madagascar. Via @live_science #MarineArcheology 🚢 #History #Anthropology #sociology
300-year-old pirate-plundered shipwreck that once held 'eyewatering treasure' discovered off Madagascar
Researchers think a shipwreck off Madagascar was a Portuguese treasure ship captured by pirates in 1721.
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July 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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18th century shipwreck discovered at 'Game of Thrones' filming location. Via @popsci #MarineArcheology 🚢
18th century shipwreck discovered at 'Game of Thrones' filming location
An underwater maintenance worker found it while working on a pipe.
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July 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Expedition to ‘real home of the pirates of the Caribbean’ hopes to unearth ships and treasure. Via @guardian #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology #MarineArcheology
Expedition to ‘real home of the pirates of the Caribbean’ hopes to unearth ships and treasure
Exploration of Bahamas seabed will be first time notorious New Providence hideout has been searched
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June 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Archaeologists find France's deepest shipwreck. Via @physorg.news #archeology #History #MarineArcheology 🚢
Archaeologists find France's deepest shipwreck
Archaeologists have discovered what they say are the remains of a 16th-century merchant ship more than 2.5 kilometers underwater off southern France, the deepest such find in its section of the…
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June 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Gold coins confirm ‘world’s richest shipwreck’ is 18th century Spanish galleon. Via @popsci #MarineArcheology 🚢 #History #Anthropology #archeology
Gold coins confirm ‘world’s richest shipwreck’ is 18th century Spanish galleon
But who gets to claim the $17 billion treasure?
www.popsci.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM