Nanhai No 1 is truly special. It’s the most complete ancient ship ever found. By studying the ship and its treasures, we can see the incredible skill of Chinese craftspeople and how important ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History ... were changing: Whale populations in the North Atlantic had declined, forcing whaling ships to head to ...

First, the whaling ships netted the “right whale” – these whales swam slowly and floated once killed. By the mid-1700s, Nantucket earned the title “Whaling Capital of the World.” ...

"In 1841, on January 3, He set sail from the port of New Bedford on the Acushnet which was the whaling ship that he sailed for so many years." Experts call the whaling museum's read-a-thon the ...