Costa Rica’s Shipwrecks Revealed as Slave Ships Located near Cahuita National Park on Costa Rica’s southern Caribbean coast, the wrecks were long suspected to be pirate ships, due to their ...

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday.

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — 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 ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica that were previously believed to be pirate ships are 18th-Century Danish slave ships that have been missing for centuries.

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday.

(CNN) — 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 ...

Marine archaeologists from the National Museum and Denmark’s Viking Ship Museum carried out an underwater excavation of the Costa Rica wrecks in 2023, taking wood from one, as well as samples of ...