The National Museum of Denmark is considered one of Europe's best museums. It presents the broad spectrum of the country's history – from the days of the Vikings to the Danish Renaissance to the ...

Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been pirate ships.

The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off ...

The 18th-century vessels were shipwrecked in 1710, according to the National Museum of Denmark. "Fridericus Quartus was set ablaze, while Christianus Quintus had its anchor rope cut, following ...

Free vegetarian meals and perks at a ski slope and other tourist sites await visitors who cycle, collect litter in Danish ...

Now, in a statement to Fox News Digital, National Museum of Denmark archaeologist David John Gregory said the two ships carried between 600 and 700 African slaves at the time of the sinking ...

Researchers studying two shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica discovered they belonged to a dark part of Danish history. John Fhær Engedal Nissen The National Museum of Denmark Centuries after ...

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday. "Investigations of ...