In Namibia’s remote Sperrgebiet—a name that translates from German as “forbidden zone”—miners looking for diamonds stumbled upon something far more valuable: the buried wreck of a 16th-century ...

The wreckage of a ship nicknamed for its bad luck is rediscovered for the first time in more than 150 years. The Nucleus, aka "Bad Luck Barquentine" sank on Sept. 14, 1869 and was recently found off ...