Over 180 years after the doomed Franklin Expedition vanished in the Arctic, researchers say they have identified four crew ...

KING WILLIAM ISLAND, CANADA – HMS Terror, a long-lost ship that vanished while searching for the Northwest Passage, sparking one of the world’s great maritime mysteries, is believed to have been found ...

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 ...

Scientists have revealed the identities of four more men who perished in Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 expedition.

Almost 170 years after it disappeared – and just seven months after it was found – the flagship from Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated expedition to discover the North West Passage has been shown to the ...

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

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US The second of two British explorer ships that ...

A shipwreck discovered last month in the Canadian Arctic has been formally identified as HMS Erebus, the long-lost flagship that British explorer Sir John Franklin commanded during his ill-fated ...

The Franklin Expedition ship discovered in early September by the 2014 Victoria Strait Expedition is Her Majesty’s Ship (HMS) Erebus. Sir John Franklin, who was in command of the Franklin Expedition, ...

A full-scale 3D printed replica of the bell that once rung out aboard the HMS Erebus — one of two ships that were part of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845 attempt to find the Northwest Passage — ...