Underwater archaeology has lead to many discoveries that has helped the modern world understand more about our past in religious beliefs and behaviours, including exploration, lifestyle and military contests. Some discoveries found by using underwater archaeology are:
• The Mary Rose. In 1545, just off Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, King Henry the Eighth’s flagship, Mary Rose, sank from overloading and poor management (UNESCO, 1987) drowning many of her crew in the process. (bbc.co.uk) The shipwreck was first located by Charles and James Deane in 1836 (welcometoportsmouth.co.uk) but it was rediscovered in the late 1960s to early 1970s and in 1982, approximately 20,000 artefacts were removed from the ship. (bbc.co.uk) and the internal structures of the hull were disassembled and brought to shore. (UNESCO, 1987) The ship is now preserved in ‘The Mary Rose ship hall’ where, to prevent uncontrolled drying and degrading it remains at 95% humidity and the ship is sprayed with chilled water and polyethylene glycol. The artefacts removed from the ship are on display in the Mary Rose Museum and they tell the modern world about the exploration and military contests of the United Kingdom back in the 1500s, as some of what was found was clothes, backgammon board, tabor pipes, tabor, shawm, fiddles, iron and bronze guns, longbows, pikes, halberds, swivel guns, lead, stone, iron and canister shots. 
• Another momentous discovery for underwater archaeology was the discoveries Franck Goddio found. His finds told us a lot more about the ancient Egyptian civilisation religious beliefs, lifestyle and trade. Franck and his team found the remains of ancient Alexandria’s fabled harbour. (Bruhn, R. 2006) Franck then discovered the submerged ancient cities of Menouthis, Canopus and Herakleion. (Bruhn, R. 2006) It is believed that Alexandria, Canopus and Herakleion were destroyed by tsunamis, earth quakes and river floods. (Bruhn, R. 2006) From this discovery, it was uncovered from an inscription on a black granite stele, that the missing city of Thonis and Herakleion were the same place. (Bruhn, R. 2006) Franck discovered many statues in these sites, including three five metre tall, red granite statues of Hapy (the fertility god), a King and a Queen in Herakleion. (Bruhn, R. 2006) When Canopus was excavated it showed a Christian era as stone and gold jewellery, wedding rings, crosses and official monastery seals were found. (Bruhn, R. 2006) 500 artefacts found by Frank Goddio in Aboukir Bay and Alexandria are on show in Berlin. (Bruhn, R. 2006) Alexandria, Canopus and Herakleion were some of the best centrse for trade, culture, science and religion, (Bruhn, R. 2006) and from the artefacts that Frank Goddio and his team found it helps the modern world learn more about the ancient Egyptian’s religious beliefs, lifestyle and trade. 
• Some other great underwater archaeological discoveries are an amphora carrier found in Kyrenia, Cyprus, which was found with more than 400 amphoras, crockery, iron ingots, millstones and the remains of almost 10000 almonds. There was also Viking ships in Denmark, Kingston Harbour in Jamaica, a sacrificial well in Mexico and many more. (UNESCO, 1987)
