In Namibia’s remote Sperrgebiet—a name that translates from German as “forbidden zone”—miners looking for diamonds stumbled upon something far more valuable: the buried wreck of a 16th-century ...

The Namib Desert, stretching along the Atlantic coast of southern Africa, isn’t just a vast, empty wasteland. A few years ago, archaeologists made an astonishing discovery there — a 16th-century ...

Diamond miners in Namibia unearthed the Bom Jesus, a 16th-century Portuguese carrack, miles inland. This remarkable discovery revealed a ship's hull intact after 500 years, laden with gold coins, ...