Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been pirate ships.

Marine archaeologists uncover two 18th-century Danish slave ships in Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica. Learn about the 1710 ...

Pirate shipwrecks off Costa Rica, long shrouded in mystery, have been revealed to hide a dramatic 1710 maritime story lost to ...

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

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. "Investigations of ...

(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 ...

are the Danish slave ships Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, which sank in 1710. The identification was announced on Sunday, resolving decades of speculation about the wrecks off Costa ...

The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off ...

Centuries-old shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, long thought to have been the property of pirates, are actually Danish ...