Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch.

Marine archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery off the coast of Costa Rica, shedding new light on a mystery that has ...

Marine archaeologists uncover two 18th-century Danish slave ships in Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica. Learn about the 1710 ...

The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off the coast of Costa Rica in the 18th century ...

Hoosier lawmakers have unanimously authorized a new type of state preserve to permanently protect the 14 historic shipwrecks and one crashed airplane located in Indiana's portion of Lake Michigan.

In 1710, two Danish slave ships got lost in some smog while sailing through the Caribbean and ultimately became shipwrecked ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a pair of Danish slave ships that sank off the Central American coast in 1710, shedding more ...

The ships were found in the early 1800s, but scientists have only recently pieced together their history. Researchers have ...

Two shipwrecks off Costa Rica were long thought to be the remains of pirate ships, but new analyses reveal that they were ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica that were previously believed to be pirate ships are ...

Divers recently identified two Danish slave ships, Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, during an excavation near ...

Researchers studying two shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica discovered they belonged to a dark part of Danish history.