Two recently published studies confirmed the identities of four sailors who were on the Franklin Expedition in 1845.

Now, researchers using ancient DNA analysis have successfully identified four of the members of the doomed expedition, ...

The identification of the remains also resolved a decades-long debate about the worst disaster in the history of British ...

Archaeologists continue to use DNA analysis to identify the recovered remains of the doomed crew members of Captain Sir John S. Franklin’s 1846 Arctic expedition to cross the Northwest Passage. They ...

Detail from Man Proposes, God Disposes, an 1864 painting depicting the imagined fate of the Franklin Expedition, which was ...

Confirmation of the identities of four sailors lost on the Franklin Expedition resolves “a great debate lasting for more than a century,” researchers say.

According to researchers from the University of Waterloo, DNA extracted from skeletal remains recovered in the Canadian ...

New research has identified four members of the doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage, including the owner of a ...

Nearly 180 years after the failed voyage, archaeologists are finally making progress in putting names to the bodies.

Explorers have found the wreck of HMS Terror, the second of two British ships lost in the disastrous 1845 Franklin expedition to Canada's Arctic Northwest Passage, Britain's Guardian newspaper said on ...

An analysis of the DNA from living descendants has identified sailors aboard the 1845 Franklin expedition to find the ...