Scientists have revealed the identities of four men who perished in Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 expedition. The Franklin Expedition was an attempt to discover the fabled Northwest Passage through ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Another piece of the Franklin Expedition puzzle has dropped into place. However, like most new bits of information concerning this ...

In 1845, British naval officer Sir John Franklin left with a crew and two ships to find the Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans only to be lost at sea and never seen again.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This oil painting by the Belgian marine artist François Etienne Musin (1820–1888) refers to HMS ‘Erebus’s’ Arctic venture under ...

Captain James Fitzjames served as captain of the HMS Erebus, but his rank didn't prevent his men from eating his remains in a desperate bid to survive. Reading time 2 minutes On May 19, 1845, two ...

Around 180 years ago, a British expedition to the Arctic met a grisly end. Only recently have scientific investigations been able to identify the long-dead seamen. Now, thanks to DNA donations from ...

The skeletal remains of a senior officer of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 Northwest Passage expedition have been identified by researchers from the University of Waterloo and Lakehead University using DNA ...

The fan, also a naval historian, helped anthropologists identify the remains of Captain James Fitzjames. The fan, also a naval historian, helped anthropologists identify the remains of Captain James ...

A new study offers clues to a 179-year-old mystery that killed more than 100 explorers on the Franklin expedition in the Canadian Arctic. By Alexander Nazaryan Into the frozen fray they went, the ...

Edited by Russell A. Potter, Regina Koellner, Peter Carney, and Mary Williamson; McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022; 504 pages; $49.95. Owing to its tragic end, still wrapped in mystery 18 decades ...