Anthropology professor Gregory Possehl's boat currently rests 6,000 feet beneath the Arabian Sea. After only hours on the water, the Magan III, a 40-foot boat made of reeds and bitumen -- a tar-like ...

The ancient peoples of the Philippines and of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) may have built sophisticated boats and mastered ...

"Making a currach - Michael Conneely," a National Museum of Ireland online exhibition, reveals unique currach-building video and archive material, part of the institution's role in preserving Irish ...

Ancient Egyptians depended on the Nile River in life and in death. The annual inundation provided rich soil for a steady source of food. The river also served as a major thoroughfare, connecting upper ...

Demand for a craft that dates back to ancient Phoenician times has dropped to all but a trickle — LOUAI BESHARA Khaled Bahlawan hammers nails into a traditional wooden boat he built by hand, toiling ...

Was Christopher Columbus the first to cross the Atlantic to discover the New World? Or was his much-vaunted voyage simply one in a line of lesser-known boat crossings? Philip Beale, director of ...

Archaeologists have made an important discovery while exploring Salamis, a small island off the coast of Greece near Athens where a now-sunken city once stood. Scientists found a partially submerged ...

A bladeless wind energy convertor inspired by the sailing boats of Ancient Carthage is set to breeze past traditional turbines in terms of efficiency, according to its Tunisian developers. A Tunisian ...