Pavlopetri, a small islet in the Peloponnese, is the oldest ancient Greek city that has ever been discovered underwater.

Imagine diving into the deep blue... and finding a whole city sitting silently at the bottom of the ocean. Sounds like ...

More than two decades after it was first discovered, a mysterious ‘underwater city’ off the coast of Cuba is back in the ...

I’ve never seen anything like this,' Bob Ballard, a National Geographic explorer, said about the recent discovery.

Now, Franck Goddio, the French underwater archaeologist who rediscovered Thonis-Heracleion, says the 82-foot-long (25-meter-long) military ship was discovered in the major canal that flowed along the ...

"The port was active during the time of Cleopatra and before at the beginning of the dynasty," noted the archaeologist behind the discovery.

Around 8,000 years ago, many civilizations thrived on plains that are now submerged by the North and Baltic seas. Now, scientists from a variety of northern European research institutions are ...

During a search conducted last year between Oct. 7 and 11, a team of underwater archaeologists unearthed a sweeping port in the ancient Mediterranean city of Asini (known in historical records as ...

A National Geographic Explorer's search for Cleopatra's tomb got a big breakthrough. Kathleen Martínez has spent the last 20 years searching for the lost tomb of Cleopatra. Her work is part of a new ...

He points to carvings resembling animals and an underwater sphinx that, according to him, bears a striking resemblance to ancient Chinese or Okinawan rulers. This connection to Mu remains speculative, ...

New research out of the University of California San Diego and the University of Haifa is reshaping what we know about ancient seaborne trade in the eastern Mediterranean. Published recently in ...