One of the most significant shipwreck finds of recent times was made in an ostensibly unlikely place: a southwest African ...

"This wreck will give us new insights into everything ... As the windswept scrub of the Namib Desert hove into view, the doomed nau struck an outcrop of rock about 150 yards from shore.

Underwater archaeologists dug under 20 feet of sand and rock off the coast of Sicily and found a 2,500-year-old shipwreck. Researchers date the find to either the fifth or sixth century B.C. Six ...

The Moynaq Ship Graveyard is literally a ghost town in the middle of the desert. It was once a busy Soviet fishing port on the Aral Sea - once one of the four largest lakes in the world - but ...

"They (camel trekkers) will be deprived of any modern technology and will have to rely on the camel, the 'ship of the desert', to carry them throughout the journey," Al Qemzi said. "Many potential ...

Moynaq's many fishermen followed the lake's shrinking shores, but as the lake disappeared its salinity levels rose, killing all the fish. The town, heavily reliant on the fishing industry, slowly ...