The marine environment is almost ideal for the preservation of artefacts and, until relatively recently, it also provided complete protection from destruction b

Water is vital for life, and its availability has been a concern for mankind throughout the ages. Its presence has always been ascertained in a variety of ways

This two-volume set highlights the importance of Iberian shipbuilding in the centuries of the so-called first globalization (15th to 18th), in confluence with a

A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea—revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by oce

Set on Maine's rocky coast, enveloped in centuries of maritime tradition, Maine Maritime Academy has trained generations of seafarers. This is the full history