SHIPWRECKS

A roundup of Secrets in the News for March 2021. 2,000-year-old chariot unearthed at Pompeii If you like this, you might like: Nero's Sunken City Live Science: An ornate four-wheeled chariot of iron, bronze and wood that archaeologists think was drawn by a team of ...

Since the day humans first took to the seas, the tragedy of shipwrecks has captured the fascination of many. Here are five infamous shipwrecks and their harrowing histories, each with their own different tragic tale. RMS Titanic Arguably the most famous ship in history, the ...

A roundup of Secrets in the News for late September 2019. Read more below for a Canadian Shipwreck, a haunting fresco from Pompeii, an ancient sea monster, and more. Underwater archaeologists release photos and video of the HMS Terror shipwreck Canada Parks reports: The Canadian ...

More than 500 ago, Michelangelo Buonarroti was the darling of the Catholic Church, commissioned to create many of its most important pieces. Historians have long wondered about the mysterious circumstances of his death — and now, art historian Antonio Forcellino believes he has pieced together ...

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In 2009 a team of marine archeologists carrying out a sonar survey of the seabed around the remote Italian island of Ventotene made an astonishing discovery.