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Archaeology

Immerse yourself in the past with our Archaeology Scuba News. Here, we bring you the latest discoveries and research from underwater archaeological sites around the world.

From sunken cities to shipwrecks, we cover the stories that bridge the gap between the deep sea and deep time, revealing the ocean’s role in human history.

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Diver with the splayed-cross grave slab (Bournemouth University)
Grave slabs raised from England’s oldest wreck
Examining the helmet on the seabed (SopMare)
Heads up: Sicilian divers find mediaeval helmet 
The spruce mast section from an ancient ship (ZaPA)
Ship’s masts stand out at Roman harbour site
Hard to match: the vast numbers of amphora at the Peristera, Alonissos site (EAA)
Calmed nerves unlock ancient Greek dive-sites
Reconstruction of the stone wall based on multibeam bathymetric data and the underwater 3D model (© Michal Grabowski)
Wall-dive: Stone Age hunting trap found in Baltic
3D image of the horse produced from photographs and elaborated on by BC Sicily
Underwater ‘tub’ turns out to be ancient horse
A diver hovers over the obsidian core (Naples Superintendency for Archaeology, Fine Arts & Landscape)
Chiselled lava-glass found on Stone Age wreck
A few of the Roman coins from the shipwreck cargo (Ministry of Culture)
Divers find up to 50k Roman coins off Sardinia
Diver applies protective marking solution on the Klein Hollandia protected wreck site. MSDS Marine_Martin Davies
Perfect solution? Shipwreck guns get security-marked
The Marstrand gun (Bo Niklasson / Bohusläns Museum)
Diver’s discovery could be earliest ship’s gun
Divers’ surprising finds: Marble disc once used an a ship to ward off the ‘evil eye’ (Israel Antiquities Authority)
Divers find ‘evil-eye’ disc – and village of 100,000 spikes
A diver explores the El-Alamein wreck site (Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities)
Divers explore 2,300-year-old wreck off Egypt
Glassware on the Aléria wreck (DRASSM / Vincent Creuze)
Deep ancient wrecks overflow with glass, pots & lamps
The unwrapped handgun on the boat (Just So Scuba)
Gun & blade: divers find arms, but who used them?
Amphora above 3rd-century BC shipwreck (Saša Denegri & Robert Kramarić)
Mine-clearance divers turn up ancient shipwreck 
Zambratija wreck (Philippe Groscaux / Mission Adriboats / CNRS/CCJ)
Divers set to lift Bronze Age ‘sewn’ boat
3D model of the national coat of arms, both lions and a possible national apple (Jim Hansson, Vrak / SMTM)
2 lions with apple: 17th-century carvings stun divers
The final circle
The final circle
Working on the anchor collar
The Titanic of its time
The Black Prince
Ben Franklin’s Black Fleet
For 10 years now the wreckage of a 17th warship sunk in a storm off the Isle of Mull has been yielding more and more secrets from the age of Cromwell. Colin Martin has become the curator of this underwater museum
Swan Song
The cannon's cascabel (HE) - HMS London wreck theft
Two Arrested Over HMS London Wreck Theft – Bronze Cannons and Artefacts Seized
Operation Zembe was tailor-made for our regular correspondent Monty Halls
In search of the ancestors
priests of the Inquisition destroyed all pagan idols and this Aztec ceremonial crystal skull would have been an exception only because it was among Cortezs personal treasure
Treasure-hunting the psychic way
Smitten by a slug
Smitten By a Slug

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