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 ...

Nestled by the Hooghly River, this former Danish colony, during the 14th and 15th centuries, was a hub of global trade. Indian cotton, oils, sugar and spices were exported from the port town of ...

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships. The ships, named Fridericus ...