Tommy Thompson walked out of federal prison, ending one of the strangest custody battles tied to a treasure hunt in modern ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, ...

A key artefact from the trans-Atlantic slave trade displayed at the National Museum of African American History and Culture ...

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.

The story of how The Wreck of the Richard & Charlene got its name involves a hurricane, a dock, and the kind of determination ...

The USS "Monitor" was the U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship. The vessel, which sank off of North Carolina in 1862, revolutionized naval warfare ...

Deep-sea explorer Tommy Thompson released from federal custody after decade behind bars for allegedly hiding 500 gold coins from historic shipwreck.

Parks Canada archeologists have uncovered a shipwreck on Sable Island believed to be the remains of a speedy Bermuda sloop that sank during the War of 1812.

The wreck of the U.S. Navy warship Nevada has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean after nearly 72 years underwater. According to Fox News, the World War II battleship was found 65 nautical miles ...

A treasure hunter who spent years in prison after refusing to reveal the location of 500 missing gold coins from one of the ...

Tommy Thompson discovered the legendary “ship of gold” off the coast of South Carolina in 1988, according to an article by CBS News. He was serving a sentence for contempt after he refused to tell ...

Archaeologists disovered a historic shipwreck on Canada’s remote Sable Island, a site known as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic ...