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

The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off ...

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

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

Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been pirate ships.

The wood was from a tree cut down between 1690 and 1695 ... However, for years, they were believed to be pirate ships, the museum said in a news release. Fisherpeople who established themselves ...

However, for years, they were believed to be pirate ... was cut and the ship was swept away. But the location of the wrecks was not known — until now. Marine archaeologists from the National Museum ...

Located in shallow waters near Costa Rica’s Cahuita National Park, the wrecks were long thought to belong to pirate ships, according ... when its anchor cable was cut. Of the nearly 700 enslaved ...