A pirate shipwreck discovered off the coast of Madagascar may hold the key to the fate of $A210 million in treasure.

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Colonizing Indigenous people—and exploiting their land and resources—has a long and brutal history.

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In an early case of industrial espionage, Robert Fortune disguised himself as a local and took tea leaves and the secrets of tea making back to the British.

Follows the epic and unprecedented telling of the unification and colonisation of Hawaii in the late 18th century.

DUBROVNIK, Croatia (AP) — A sunken 18th-century boat has been discovered by chance near the majestic stone walls of Croatia's medieval city of Dubrovnik.

An elderly American couple could stand trial in France for their alleged roles in the sale of gold bars plundered from a trading ship that sank off the coast of Brittany nearly 300 years ago.

DUBROVNIK, Croatia (AP) — A sunken 18th-century boat has been discovered by chance near the majestic stone walls of Croatia’s medieval city of Dubrovnik. Ivan Bukelic was working on a water p… ...