Centuries-old shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, long thought to have been the property of pirates, are actually Danish ...

Danish ships involved in transatlantic slave trade uncovered off Costa Rica - Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus sank over 300 years ago ...

The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off ...

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships. The ships, named Fridericus ...

Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been pirate ships.

“The analyses are very convincing and we no longer have any doubts that these are the wrecks of the two Danish slave ships,” said marine archaeologist David Gregory, a research professor and ...

"The analyses are very convincing and we no longer have any doubts that these are the wrecks of the two Danish slave ships," the expert observed. National Museum of Denmark marine archaeologist ...

a new investigation revealed them to be the remains of two former Danish slave ships that dramatically sank more than 300 years ago. Marine archaeologists from the National Museum of Denmark and ...

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships. The ships, named Fridericus ...

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 ...