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 ...

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 ...

“The bricks are Danish and same ... stating that one of the ships was burnt.” Marine archeologist Andreas Kallmeyer Bloch documents underwater excavations in Costa Rica (John Fhær Engedal ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ... off Costa Rica in 2023, and assessed samples, including clay pipes, from their cargo. The analysis revealed that the ships were most likely ...