Half a millennium after it vanished, a 500-year treasure ship has surfaced from beneath the sands of the Namib, its timbers and cargo revealing a frozen moment from the age of global empires. What ...

In August 2024, the Jasper House Museum in Oranjemund, Namibia, unveiled a new exhibition dedicated to the artifacts recovered from the Bom Jesus, a 500-year-old Portuguese shipwreck discovered in the ...

The majority of shipwrecks from the era of the Great Discoveries now lie at the bottom of the ocean abyss or in shallow bays.

The Namib Desert, stretching along the Atlantic coast of southern Africa, isn’t just a vast, empty wasteland. A few years ago, archaeologists made an astonishing discovery there — a 16th-century ...