Port Royal, now off the coast of Jamaica, was submerged 300 years ago after an earthquake. “In the seventeenth century, ... The team will create a detailed map of the site, ...

Port Royal is Jamaica's second World Heritage Site, with the first being the Blue and John Crow Mountains, a rugged and ...

On 12 July 2025, the World Heritage Committee inscribed The Archaeological Landscape of 17th Century Port Royal, Jamaica on the World Heritage List. This decision marks a key milestone for Jamaica and ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Port Royal is set to become a World Heritage Site by July, according to Culture Minister Olivia Grange. She made the announcement at the floral tribute marking the 95th ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Archaeologists will ask the United Nations’ cultural agency to bestow world heritage status on Port Royal, the mostly submerged remains of a historic Jamaican port known as ...

PORT ROYAL, Jamaica (Reuters) - Since being founded in the mid-17th century, the small Jamaican fishing town of Port Royal has survived a seemingly endless cycle of typically Caribbean threats, ...

The 750-foot pier at Port Royal will be well away from the sunken city, to protect it. Jamaica expects it to be ready in the first quarter of 2019, with Germany's Aida Cruises identified as the ...

This article examines the great Port Royal earthquake of 1692 in the context of other earthquakes that struck Jamaica in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centureis. It argues that although most ...