Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery in the azure depths of the Mediterranean Sea near the southern coast of ...

Underwater archaeologists dug under 20 feet of sand and rock off the coast of Sicily and found a 2,500-year-old shipwreck.

Piece by piece, experts carefully transported the Phoenician vessel to dry land, where it will be studied and preserved ...

Little else is known about the ship ... vessel’s building materials, environmental impacts on the ship, and any potential historical information regarding ancient trade in the Mediterranean.

Phoenicia was an ancient civilization along the eastern Mediterranean ... about Phoenician naval construction, even now, despite the wealth of information about ships built nearby in the ...

In this slide show, take a close look at this 4,600-year-old ship of state.—Peter Tyson Museum Inside this building ... the ancient Egyptians had imported cedar from the eastern Mediterranean ...

Officials say that it will help them explore more about the long-lost civilisation of Phoenicia which was established on the eastern Mediterranean coast between 1500 and 300 BCE. This is what we ...

Such artefacts are widely found throughout the ancient eastern Mediterranean world. The discovery of wrecked ships is not unusual - there are said to be thousands dotted around the Mediterranean.

Archaeologists believe the ship was built by the Phoenicians, a seafaring group of traders and merchants who lived along the ...