At the Canadian site of a world-famous shipwreck, divers are making remarkable discoveries

Archaeologists had a highly productive season of excavation on the Erebus, one of Sir John Franklin's two ships that set out from England in 1845. Neither it nor the Terror — nor the 129 men they carried — ever returned.

At the Canadian site of a world-famous shipwreck, divers are making remarkable discoveries
A diver examines an old box underwater.

Archaeologists had a highly productive season of excavation on the Erebus, one of Sir John Franklin's two ships that set out from England in 1845. Neither it nor the Terror — nor the 129 men they carried — ever returned.