Medieval cog. It turned out the 55-ton (50 tonnes) ship was a medieval cog, a type of wooden vessel with a steep, straight ship prow and deck beams that stick out from the boat's skin. Cogs were ...

The boat was likely deliberately sunk by maritime engineers more than 600 years ago in an effort to alter the flow of the Ijssel River, an offshoot of the mighty Rhine River that flows through six ...

It turned out the 55-ton (50 tonnes) ship was a medieval cog, a type of wooden vessel with a steep, straight ship prow and deck beams that stick out from the boat's skin. Cogs were typically used ...

A sunken 18th-century boat has been discovered by chance near the majestic stone walls of Croatia's medieval city of Dubrovnik.

Two tiny Scandinavian settlements in Greenland persisted for nearly 500 years and then mysteriously vanished. Their ...

An 18th-century wooden boat was recently unearthed beneath the seabed in Dubrovnik's Old Town harbor, adding to Europe's ...

Medium-sized trading boat worked Palestinian coastline around A.D. 700, shortly after Arab conquest.

Chris Wickham is one of the best-known Marxist historians of the Middle Ages. In his book The Donkey and the Boat, he offers an ambitious account of the internal dynamics of the precapitalist ...

How did people get around in the Middle Ages? In this video, we explore four main modes of transportation from that time: walking, horseback riding, carts and wagons, and boats. From muddy roads to ...

KAMPEN, the Netherlands - Archaeologists raised a 15th century trading ship that once sailed the Baltic and North seas from a Dutch riverbed where it had been buried for hundreds of years.

In this frame grab made from video, diver Toni Kuran swims by the wreck of a sunken 18th-century boat after it was discovered by chance in April near the stone walls of Croatia’s medieval city ...