Protecting undersea cultural heritage in spotlight at mining code talks The world's oceans harbor a cultural heritage of sunken ships, remains of those lost in the transatlantic slave trade and ...

Early in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), an expansion of seaborne trade took place with the construction of an immense treasure fleet—reported to consist of 317 ships when it was assembled in ...

Learn more about ocean life in Sea of Hope: America’s Underwater Treasures, premiering Sunday, January 15 at 7/6c on National Geographic. One hundred miles northeast of Boston Harbor ...

A new museum showcasing thousands of ancient archaeological artefacts found at sea will open next year at the Greek port of Piraeus near Athens, officials said on Monday. The EU-funded museum ...

Estimates of the treasure ships' size are based in literary ... of Archeology at Brown University and a leading expert on underwater archeology, who has studied shipwrecks in Bermuda and the ...

protecting intangible parts of the undersea heritage is more tricky. The mining code could protect this kind of treasure by establishing a "checkpoint" before the mining is undertaken, he said.