Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett has announced $440,000 in funding from the Australian Government’s Historic Shipwrecks Program to protect the nation’s underwater cultural heritage. The Minister made the announcement on a visit to the Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston, Tasmania, where three of the 29 funded projects will be carried […]

Emory Kristof could not believe his eyes. Crammed into a nondescript house in suburban Los Angeles were 10,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain and pottery, some 2,000 years old, so densely packed that any movement threatened to send them crashing to the floor. Some were encrusted with coral, evidence of their hidden life for centuries under […]

A team from the European Underwater Archeology Institute is carrying out a study to determine the best way to build Egypt’s first underwater antiquities museum, an official source said. According to a press release from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), experts are studying the best way to build the museum, which will treasure underwater […]

, recently recovered from the bottom of the South China Sea, is threatening to inflame a diplomatic row over an area believed to be rich in oil. Divers working for the French oil company Elf, stumbled across the wreck of a 15th Century Chinese galleon containing a hoard of priceless porcelain and ceramic pieces. The […]

Marine archaeologists have discovered a 600 ton vessel as luxurious as Titanic. Marine archaeologists have carried a series of dives on the vessel which is 23 ft inside the water. There are doubts whether it is a cargo ship or a warship.