Two shipwrecks off Costa Rica were long thought to be the remains of pirate ships, but new analyses reveal that they were actually Danish ships that took part in the transatlantic slave trade.

New research has indicated that two ships found in Costa Rica, once thought by archaeologists to be pirate ships, were ...

(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 ...

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.

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 ...

“The bricks are Danish and same ... stating that one of the ships was burnt.” Marine archeologist Andreas Kallmeyer Bloch documents underwater excavations in Costa Rica (John Fhær Engedal ...

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 ...

An expedition of marine archaeologists from Denmark has unraveled the mystery surrounding two shipwrecks lying in the shallow waters of Cahuita National Park, on the Caribbean coast of Costa ...