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 ...

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.

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 ...

Centuries-old shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, long thought to have been the property of pirates, are actually Danish ...

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Cahuita, Costa Rica, are confirmed as Danish ships Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus.

This is one of the most dramatic events in Denmark’s maritime history — and now we know where it happened,” said marine ...

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.