The location of the HMS Endeavour, a lost ship belonging to 18th-century British explorer Captain James Cook, has been ...

Australian researchers have issued a final report about a decades-long search for a famous shipwreck believed to be in Rhode ...

The Australian National Maritime Museum announced the discovery of Captain James Cook's iconic shipwreck off the coast of ...

Researchers with the Australian National Maritime Museum have discovered Capt. Cook’s famous lost ship Endeavour, closing the book on a maritime mystery that has endured for 250 years.

Island heads’ are famous worldwide but also mysterious. Who made these stone statues? How were they transported? What do they ...

Captain James Cook's famous ship, the HM Bark Endeavour, was positively identified off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island, ...

Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed here on Easter Sunday in 1722, the first European known to visit the island, but only stayed for one day. By the time British captain James Cook arrived in ...

When British explorer James Cook arrived at Rapa Nui — known to him as Easter Island — in 1774, he described small bands of malnourished people barely sustained by a barren, treeless strip of ...

In a dry lake bed, archaeologists on Rapa Nui—also known as Easter Island—have unearthed ... with Captain James Cook writing in 1774 that he “could hardly conceive how these islanders ...