News, discoveries, and insights from NADL
Since its invention in the 19th century, photography has had the ability to freeze in time an instant, a fragment of reality printed on paper or in a digital archive, which transcends the image itself. Photography becomes an artwork, because it has the ab
11 stories from Europe, the Americas and Asia: Guinness recognises the Kekova wreck as the world's oldest, and a wreck off Taean, Korea, carries cargo tags from about 800 years ago.
Parte da História da Humanidade está relacionada aos ambientes aquáticos. Mares, oceanos, rios, lagos e áreas alagadas foram, ao longo dos séculos, espaços fundamentais para a circulação de pessoas, mercadorias, conhecimentos e culturas. Nesses ambientes
8 stories from Portugal, Spain, the Americas and beyond: an Austro-Hungarian barque located in the Azores and a US court ruling on the Maravillas treasure.
Written in the summer of 1871 by Arthur Rimbaud, then 16 years old. The poem, one-hundred lines long, describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea
Mythologies. Editions du Seuil, 1957
Excerpts. Michel Foucault, Dits et écrits 1984, Des espaces autres (conférence au Cercle d'études architecturales, 14 mars 1967), in Architecture, Mouvement, Continuité, n°5, octobre 1984, pp. 46-49.
In the 19th and 20th centuries Santarém's cultural heritage was destroyed wilfully. A preliminary look at the city's relationship with its 25 centuries of history.
An excerpt from Richard Henry Dana's classic memoir of life at sea.
An excerpt from Eugene O'Neill's one-act sea play Bound East for Cardiff.
An excerpt from Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
The opening of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, aboard the Nellie on the Thames.
Information about archaeology and treasure hunting.
A critical examination of treasure hunting ventures - 21 things to consider before investing in shipwreck salvage.
A collection of texts from archaeological societies addressing the ethics and problems of treasure hunting.
Ethical codes and statements from major archaeological organizations regarding the protection of cultural heritage.
Information about ethical and legal protections of the world's cultural heritage, including UNESCO conventions and domestic laws.
If archaeology is secret, people don't know about their cultural heritage, cannot enjoy it, will not ask politicians to protect it, and things are destroyed without even being studied.
Archaeology can, and perhaps should, deconstruct many of the ideas that we have historically given as certain, as absolute truths. Thoughts that are firmly established in the minds of most people and that scientists and intellectuals must subject…
Around a boat, regardless of its characteristics, a large number of questions can be asked: what materials were used for its construction? What type of construction was necessary to build it? Who built it? Where did it come from? What can it be…
Participants of the shipbuilding and asset activation workshop at Fort San Fernando de Bocachica (Cartagena de Indias)
“You can say Expert Treasure-hunter instead of Burglar if you like. Some of them do. It’s all the same to us.”
Some archaeologists live in fear that their excavations might be published by somebody else, should their colleagues come across their primary data. Most archaeologists, however, don’t even publish their own excavations. It is difficult to…
Social media is making archaeology public and helping archaeologists to share their discoveries and ideas to a wider than ever public. This trend is creating a public for archaeology that is already the best ally of the cultural heritage.
As we work on our shipbuilding databases it becomes increasing evident that we must standardize the description of wooden hull structures, in the same way biologists standardized the description of insects.
Welcome to the Nautical Archaeology Digital Library Webpage. We expect to have this website running in the Fall semester of 2019.
A comic-style retrospective on the excavation and reconstruction of a seventeen century Portuguese nau.