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Divers exploring oldest warship found off Sweden find “new clues”

Bubbles rise through the murky green water as divers tenderly explore a rare 15th-century shipwreck off Stockholm’s coast, believed to be the oldest warship found off Sweden. “It’s a very big ship, it was around 40-45 meters when it sailed probably,” project leader and marine archaeologist Hakan Altrock from Sweden’s Museum of Wrecks said, overseeing […]

​World’s oldest shipwreck found off Turkey, archaeologists say: “Time capsule at the bottom of the sea”

Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest shipwreck off the coast of Turkey, dating it to between 4,400 and 4,700 years old. The structure of the ship has not survived the nearly five millennia underwater, but its contents of clay jars have been preserved surprisingly well, with some still containing traces of what they transported over […]

Norway’s King Harald V, Europe’s oldest monarch, dies at 89

Stavanger, Norway — King Harald V of Norway, who went into exile in the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation of his homeland and refused a string of European noblewomen to marry his school sweetheart, died Friday. He was 89. The palace said he died at the National Hospital in Oslo at […]

Woman murdered in 1936 and buried underneath building is finally identified: “One of Toronto’s oldest mysteries”

The remains of a woman murdered nearly a century ago and buried beneath a building have finally been identified thanks to modern forensic testing.  The woman was identified as Mary McLeod Moffat (née Davidson), a Scottish national who immigrated to Canada with her family in 1913, according to police and the laboratory that performed the […]