As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

Deep-sea explorers who found $500 million in sunken treasure two years ago say they have discovered another prized shipwreck: a legendary British man-of-war that sank in the English Channel 264 years ...

A sunken 18th-century British warship involved in a "historic shipwreck" has been identified, National Park Service archeologists in Florida said. The "HMS Tyger" is the name of the warship identified ...

Often, when I see that a book comes directly out of a dissertation, there’s a sinking feeling that it may be arcane and academic in the extreme. The kind of book that’s filled with jargon and overly ...

Although the fact is often forgotten, the American colonists were not the only people who faced a political crisis in the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered new research that provides definitive evidence that the remains of an 18th-century British warship are resting in the waters of South Florida. Although the discovery of ...