Divers recently identified two Danish slave ships, Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, during an excavation near ...

Two shipwrecks located in the shallow waters off Costa Rica’ Cahuita National Park were long believed by locals to be those ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica that were previously believed to be pirate ships are ...

This is one of the most dramatic events in Denmark’s maritime history — and now we know where it happened,” said marine ...

Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been ...

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery off the coast of Costa Rica, identifying two 18th-century shipwrecks as Danish slave ships rather than pirate vessels as previously believed. The ships, ...

Centuries after Danish ships carrying enslaved people from West Africa disappeared in the Caribbean, the charred and destroyed remains have been identified for the first time.

(CNN) — Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of ...

“The analyses are very convincing and we no longer have any doubts that these are the wrecks of the two Danish slave ships,” said marine archaeologist David Gregory, a research professor and ...

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships. The ships, named Fridericus ...