An "exceptionally well-preserved" bronze cannon from an iconic ship was recovered from a busy shipping lane after 360 years at the bottom of an England waterway, historians announced this week.

In the southern Arizona desert, a fragment of forgotten history has emerged from the dust: a bronze cannon, silent for nearly 500 years. This relic is officially the oldest firearm ever found in ...

Independent researchers in Arizona have unearthed a bronze cannon linked to the Vázquez de Coronado expedition, making it the oldest firearm ever found in the continental United States.

The 42-inch-long (107-centimeter) bronze cannons, also known as wall guns, were found by independent researcher Deni Seymour. They are the first firearms recovered from an expedition led by ...

It was a hot fall day, the sun beating down as they worked. Eventually, there it was: a 3.5-foot long, cast bronze cannon. Seymour looked at in awe. She felt overwhelmed by its rarity, and its ...

It’s the oldest gun in the West. Scientists have exhumed a nearly 500-year-old bronze conquistador cannon in Arizona that’s the oldest gun ever discovered in the United States, per a ...

After archaeologist Deni Seymour found the rarest artifact of her career, her excitement turned to worry that she would be investigated by police. She had unearthed a 3½-foot bronze cannon in ...

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The bronze cannon, or wall gun, is associated with the first European expedition of the Southwest, and was found on the floor of a Spanish stone-and-adobe building in southern Arizona, near the ...

A 40-pound bronze cannon, or wall gun, believed to have been part of the Francisco Vázquez de Coronado expedition has been discovered in southern Arizona. Photo from Deni J. Seymour A centuries ...

Cannon have been a part of St. Augustine's history since its earliest days. Not quite a year after St. Augustine was founded, 22 bronze cannon had been mounted on the wooden fort built on ...