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A newly discovered 300-year-old pirate burial site may be the largest-ever found on U.S. soil, according to archaeologists. More than 100 skeletal remains were found at the Massachusetts site, some of which might belong to Captain "Black Sam" Bellamy, thought to be the world’s richest pirate... "Over 100 pirates washed ashore on Cape Cod [after the wreck], and our team believe that we have located it," Casey Sherman, author and filmmaker who partnered with the research team, told The Telegraph... Bellamy and his crew are thought to have drowned in 1717, when their ship, the Whydah Gally, was wrecked. In...

A hoard of pirate’s treasure worth £200 million at today’s prices is to be raised from the seabed. The notorious pirate ship the Whydah, which was captained by Devon-born “Black Sam” Bellamy, sank in heavy storms in the Atlantic off the coast of Massachusetts in April 1717. When the ship went down she was laden heavily with ingots of gold, valuable gem-stones and dozens of tusks of precious ivory. The booty was so vast that each member of the 180-man crew was entitled to 50lb (23kg) of the haul by weight......

A drawing of the Whyda, the pirate ship that John King is believed to have been sailing on when he died. (Expedition Whydah Sea-Lab & Learning Center) The silk stocking, shoe and fibula believed to be John King's, found in the wreckage off Wellfleet. (Expedition Whydah Sea-Lab & Learning Center) He was a boy, no more than 11, when pirates captured the ship he and his mother were sailing on in the Caribbean. As he watched the pirates haul off the ship's cargo of sugar and tobacco, John King made a decision: He would leave his mother and join...

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. - Mark Wilde-Ramsing may be ashore in his office, but his thoughts are often on a patch of water that's displayed on his computer screen via a live feed from a tower-mounted zoom camera. On the surface, the picture is not much to look at: a marker buoy being tossed about by whitecaps on the angry brown waters of North Carolina's Beaufort Inlet. But 30 feet down lie the remains of a 17th-century vessel that experts say once belonged to the notorious pirate Edward Thatch, better known as Blackbeard. Since its discovery in 1996, Shipwreck Site 0003BUI...