A sunken 18th-century boat has been discovered by chance near the majestic stone walls of Croatia’s medieval city of Dubrovnik.

The remaining five are clearly linked by a cohesive story, set within a specific timeframe from the early 17th century to the mid-18th century, perfectly aligning with the height of Caribbean piracy.

In the 18th century, people only had letters, but what they wrote about feels very familiar.” England and France have a long, complicated history of being at war, most notably the Hundred Years ...

Ships with less than 450 passengers would be allowed to put into Nice's port. According to the port authority, nearly 90 cruise ships will put in at Villefranche-sur-mer this year, including ...

The 18th century, a time of maritime adventure and peril, saw the rise of privateers, those legalised pirates who roamed the seas in search of enemy vessels to plunder.

This is, briefly, the story of Le Café de Surate (The Coffee-House of Surat), an 18th-century tale by French writer Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814) evoking religious tolerance ...

Art History This 18th-Century Painting Could Rewrite Black History in Britain. New research brings to light the life of James Cumberlidge, a servant who became a trumpeter for King George III.

There are useful accounts, for example, of 18th-century thinking about animals as things (or not)—Joseph Siffred Duplessis’s dog; Marie-Anne Collot’s nightingale, a gift from Catherine II ...

Sotheby's plans to auction a rare 18th-century diamond necklace in Geneva on November 11. Comprising around 500 diamonds and potentially linked to Marie Antoinette, the piece is estimated to fetch ...

A cargo ship has crossed the Atlantic Ocean only powered by wind for the first time in nearly 100 years. A groundbreaking cargo ship powered primarily by wind successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean ...

Eco-friendly French cargo ship revives sail power. New York ... The vessel uses a computerized, robotic rigging system to adjust the vast sails which make the ship 206 feet tall.