Archaeologists have been recovering historical artifacts from the vessel possibly stolen by Blackbeard since 1996. Granger Collection, New York The vessel believed to have been Blackbeard’s flagship ...

Dead for centuries, the high seas most infamous pirate will take center-stage in the nation’s highest court. Underwater photographer Rick Allen’s dives into the depths of history and to a sunken ...

Famed pirate fired lead shot, nails and glass from cannons. June 12, 2011 — -- The notorious pirate Blackbeard used improvised weapons and missiles to terrorize the seas from Virginia to the ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Nearly 300 years after the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship sank off the North Carolina coast, a shipwreck-hunting company and the state are battling over treasure linked to the ...

An anchor from what's believed to be the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard's flagship saw the light of day Friday for the first time in almost 300 years. It will join a larger exhibit of ...

A 3,000-pound anchor from what is believed to be the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge, is recovered from the ocean in Beaufort Inlet in 2011. Robert Willett rwillett ...

BEAUFORT, N.C. (AP) – Archeologists in North Carolina have recovered five more cannons from the wreck Blackbeard’s flagship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge. The largest of the guns raised Monday weighs ...

Archaeologists recovered the first anchor from what's believed to be the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard's flagship off the North Carolina coast Friday. Divers had planned to recover a different anchor ...

Johnny Depp, it turns out, has led us astray. The real pirates of the Caribbean were actually bloodthirsty and terrifyingly violent, the Telegraph reports. Marine archeologists have been sifting ...

The Berkeley County Museum and Heritage Center features a new exhibit highlighting one of the most famous pirates in history. For centuries, history books have recorded that Edward Teach – formally ...