Effort to tie North Carolina shipwreck to pirate Blackbeard advances
Saturday, June 18, 2011 - 23:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
After examining thousands of artifacts and digging through historical data, maritime archaeologists have a verdict: A ship off North Carolina is all but certainly the Queen Anne's Revenge.In the fall of 1996, a private treasure-hunting company discovered a shipwreck in shallow waters a mile off the coast of this colonial fishing harbor.