The shipwreck-hunting company that found Blackbeard's flagship that sank off the North Carolina coast nearly 300 years ago has sued the state for more than $8 million, saying officials violated a ...

Rick Allen has plunged to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to photograph and videotape the salvaging of Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard's ship that sank off the North Carolina coast 300 years ago.

RALEIGH, N.C. – 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 vessel – ...

Blackbeard abandoned his famed pirate vessel after it ran aground off the coast of North Carolina in 1718. Three centuries later, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide if state officials pirated ...

Blackbeard died in an attack 305 years ago, historians said. Screengrab from the NC Department of Natural & Cultural Resources on Facebook Blackbeard met his “bloody end” off the North Carolina coast ...

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 ...

BEAUFORT, North Carolina (Reuters) - Nearly three centuries ago, the notorious pirate Blackbeard ran aground in his ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, off what is now a North Carolina beach town. Sign up ...

He was an ogre, tall, bloodthirsty, strong, with a booming voice, a savage appetite and a bushy black beard that hung down to his belly. Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, was one of history's most ...

A 2,000-pound cannon pulled from the waters near Beaufort will give archaeologists and historians more ammunition for separating fact from legend surrounding the infamous pirate Blackbeard. The Queen ...

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 ...