With a bronze battering ram attached to its prow and a crew of nearly 200 oarsmen, the trireme helped turn Athens into a naval superpower. Harder than it looksOlympias, a reproduction of an ancient ...

The Royal Navy came into its own during the "Age of Reason," in which ancient Greece was seen as a virtuous and exemplary ...

Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found off Alexandria matches Strabo’s account, offering new insights into early Roman Egypt.

J. Richard Steffy, 83, a self-taught expert on ancient shipbuilding who helped revolutionize the field of underwater archaeology and earned a reputation as "the Sherlock Holmes of ancient ship ...

The great depth at which the ship was found means it has been left undisturbed by waves, currents or fishermen over the millennia, offering greater potential for research, it said. "The discovery of ...