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Nearly two centuries after the ships sank, divers exploring the HMS Erebus wreck have discovered an array of "fascinating artifacts," including pistols, coins and even an intact thermometer ...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And now the story of a mysterious shipwreck and the recent discovery that may provide some answers. This is a shipwreck that happened a long time ago - in 1848, to be exact ...
Archaeologists have found hundreds of preserved artefacts within the remnants of the HMS Erebus nearly two centuries after it sank in Arctic Canada.
The Erebus was discovered in 2014, located in the Queen Maud Gulf south of Canada’s King William Island, a public-private partnership led by Parks Canada, country’s national parks service. Two ...
HMS Erebus took part in the Ross expedition of 1839-1843, and was abandoned in 1848 during the third Franklin expedition.
Parks Canada’s underwater archaeology team explored the legendary shipwrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, lost on the ill-fated Franklin Expedition of 1845. Their research added to the body of ...
The newfound wreck of the HMS Erebus is giving up its secrets, with a handful of artifacts from the doomed Franklin expedition put on public display for the first time.
Archaeologists recovered the HMS Erebus in 2014, centuries after the ship sank and its case went cold. New artifacts are sharing its secrets.
Franklin expedition captain who died in 1848 was cannibalized by survivors Scientists matched DNA of living descendent to Capt. James Fitzjames of the HMS Erebus.
This oil painting by the Belgian marine artist François Etienne Musin (1820–1888) refers to HMS ‘Erebus’s’ Arctic venture under the command of Sir John Franklin in 1845.
The Erebus was discovered in 2014, located in the Queen Maud Gulf south of Canada’s King William Island, a public-private partnership led by Parks Canada, country’s national parks service.