Archaeologists Friday successfully raised an anchor from the Queen Anne’s Revenge, the ship that pirate Blackbeard and his crew intentionally grounded off the North Carolina coast in 1718. The nearly 3000-pound anchor is the largest artifact yet recovered from the wreck of the notorious pirate’s flagship. Archaeologists recovered the first anchor from what’s believed [...]
Atantis, the fabled lost island detailed in the writings of Plato, may have been discovered buried deep beneath the mud flats of southern Spain after falling victim to an ancient tsunami. Many possible locations have been pinpointed over the years as the home of Atlantis, the lost island of legend first mentioned in Plato’s Timaeus [...]
An expedition surveying the wreck of the Titanic is showing off some crisp images of the world’s most famous shipwreck, but officials said on Sunday they were headed back to shore. The team of scientists have been using a pair of robots to take thousands of photographs and hours of video of the wreck, which [...]
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FREDERICKSBURG, Texas (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush is helping dedicate a $15.5 million gallery expansion that carries his name at the National Museum of the Pacific War in Texas. Bush is expected at the museum in Fredericksburg on Monday, the 68th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks. Bush was a World War II naval [...]
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