At the downtown base of the Bridge of Lions in St. Augustine, a construction project turned into an archaeological dig Friday, when crew members spotted wood, old wood. "We just found a boat from the ...

A single ancient fingerprint, pressed into sticky pine pitch more than two millennia ago, is reshaping what archaeologists ...

Researchers have discovered a 2,400-year-old fingerprint on Scandinavia’s oldest plank boat, likely belonging to someone who helped repair the craft. This finding will help elucidate the origins and ...

When an ancient ship was unearthed in Scandinavia over 100 years ago, archaeologists started to uncover bits and pieces of its history. On board the plank-built vessel was a hoard of weapons — swords, ...

A fingerprint has been found in the tars used to build the oldest known wooden plank boat in Scandinavia, which provides a direct link to the seaborne raiders who used the boat over 2,000 years ago.

The fingerprint of a seaborne raider who lived over 2,000 years ago has been discovered in the oldest surviving plank boat ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — How do you take apart a 19th Century boat that's been covered in mud for more than 200 years? Very carefully, of course. Actually, it's plank by plank. At the downtown base of ...

A single fingerprint in ancient tar is rewriting the story of one of Scandinavia’s earliest seaborne raids. Researchers have ...