Across the world’s continental shelves, scientists are racing to reconstruct an ancient landscape that once stretched where ...

Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.

An ancient underwater city beneath Turkey's Lake Van stuns scientists, potentially revealing secrets that challenge the origins of Noah's Ark. The sprawling ruins lie 85 feet below the surface near ...

Divers in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula say they have discovered the world's largest underwater cave. Underwater archaeologists discovered last week that the cave system known as Sac Actun, located near ...

A National Geographic Explorer's search for Cleopatra's tomb got a big breakthrough. Kathleen Martínez has spent the last 20 years searching for the lost tomb of Cleopatra. Her work is part of a new ...

Around 8,000 years ago, many civilizations thrived on plains that are now submerged by the North and Baltic seas. Now, scientists from a variety of northern European research institutions are ...