WASHINGTON – Argh, matey! The Supreme Court is digging into a dispute over a sunken pirate ship captained three centuries ago by the legendary pirate Blackbeard.. The case, to be heard in the ...

Archaeologists are excavating the vessel that served as the flagship of the pirate Blackbeard, and the medical equipment they have recovered from the shipwreck suggests the notorious buccaneer had ...

BEAUFORT, N.C. – Diving archaeologists are in the midst of a monthlong expedition to the sunken wreckage of the pirate Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, off the North Carolina coast ...

Oct. 26, 2011— -- Archaeologists lifted a 300-year-old cannon from the pirate Blackbeard's ship off the coast of North Carolina today. The eight-foot-long cannon was covered in sand and ocean ...

Conservators have found fragments of paper that suggest the notorious 18th-century pirate Captain Edward (Blackbeard) Teach may have kept a library of books on board his ship the Queen Anne's Revenge.

Blackbeard, the popular name for Edward Teach, the notorious English pirate who terrorized the Caribbean Sea from 1716 to 1718. Getty Images Hollywood has had a love affair with pirates for a long ...

The Supreme Court is considering whether North Carolina must pay to use photos and videos made by the company documenting the recovery of the Queen Anne's Revenge.

Archeologists say they have retrieved a nearly 3,000-pound anchor dating back to 1717 from a ship that could link provide clues into Blackbeard, one of the world's most notorious pirates.

When the pirates boarded the ship, they sprung up for close combat. They overpowered Blackbeard, leaving him shot five times and cut 20 times over. Maynard severed Blackbeard's head from his body ...

A one-ton cannon from a ship captained by legendary pirate Blackbeard is hoisted from the water near Beaufort, North Carolina. (HOLGER BENNEWITZ/REUTERS) Ahoy, mateys. The sea has given up another ...

Blackbeard is the most famous pirate who ever lived. His real name was Edward Teach (or possibly Thatch), and his flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, was formerly a French slave vessel named La ...

Blackbeard was able to capture this ship easily because much of its crew was either sick or dead due to disease. A few months into 1718, the Queen Anne's Revenge ran aground on a sandbar at ...