Aug 20, 2026 | Maritime History & Archaeology
There is a stretch of the Karmøy coast, on the western edge of Norway, where a row of burial mounds sits in the wind and watches the fjord. The biggest of them is Grønhaug. Inside it, archaeologists have known since 1902, is the remains of a Viking ship — possibly...
Aug 1, 2026 | Maritime History & Archaeology
The Batavia did not die quietly, and it did not die alone. On the morning of 4 June 1629, the flagship of the Dutch East India Company’s outbound fleet drove onto Morning Reef in the Houtman Abrolhos archipelago, about sixty kilometres off the coast of what is...
Jul 25, 2026 | Maritime History & Archaeology
There is a stretch of water between two small Dodecanese islands, Karpathos and Kasos, that every ship moving between the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean has had to think about for as long as there have been ships to think with. A joint survey by the Greek...
