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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An expedition of marine archaeologists from Denmark has unraveled the mystery surrounding two shipwrecks lying in the shallow waters of Cahuita National Park, on the Caribbean coast of Costa ...

Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch.

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 ...

RASCOE: Do we know if there are any descendants from the ship still living in Costa Rica? BLOCH: So there are people there who has a direct line. Also with the Danish sailors, there's also a ...