Archaeologists have uncovered a pair of Danish slave ships that sank off the Central American coast in 1710, shedding more ...

The wrecks had long been known to sit in shallow waters off Cahuita National Park, on Costa Rica’s southern ... these are the wrecks of the two Danish slave ships,” said marine archaeologist ...

The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off the coast of Costa Rica in the 18th century ...

(photo credit: National Museum of Denmark) Marine archaeologists have confirmed that two shipwrecks off Costa Rica’s southern Caribbean coast are the remains of long-lost Danish slave ships ...

CAHUITA NATIONAL PARK, COSTA RICA—Two shipwrecks located in the ... a new investigation revealed them to be the remains of two former Danish slave ships that dramatically sank more than 300 ...

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ... waters off Costa Rica's Cahuita ...

Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch.

Archaeologists have uncovered a pair of Danish ... off Costa Rica in 2023, and assessed samples, including clay pipes, from their cargo. The analysis revealed that the ships were most likely ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire ...