Two shipwrecks off Costa Rica were long thought to be the remains of pirate ships, but new analyses reveal that they were actually Danish ships that took part in the transatlantic slave trade.

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday. "Investigations of ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a pair of Danish slave ships that sank off the Central American coast in 1710, shedding more ...

The wrecks had long been known to sit in shallow waters off Cahuita National Park, on Costa Rica’s southern ... these are the wrecks of the two Danish slave ships,” said marine archaeologist ...

New research has indicated that two ships found in Costa Rica, once thought by archaeologists to be pirate ships, were ...

(photo credit: National Museum of Denmark) Marine archaeologists have confirmed that two shipwrecks off Costa Rica’s southern Caribbean coast are the remains of long-lost Danish slave ships ...

CAHUITA NATIONAL PARK, COSTA RICA—Two shipwrecks located in the ... a new investigation revealed them to be the remains of two former Danish slave ships that dramatically sank more than 300 ...

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ... waters off Costa Rica's Cahuita ...

are the Danish slave ships Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, which sank in 1710. The identification was announced on Sunday, resolving decades of speculation about the wrecks off Costa ...

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday. "Investigations of ...