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  • Archaeologists Discover Possible Burial Site of the World's Richest Pirate

    04/06/2018 8:36:37 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 37 replies
    NewsWeak ^ | March 30, 2018 | Janissa Delzo
    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...