The discovery of the infamous pirate Blackbeard’s ship Queen Anne’s Revenge, off the coast of North Carolina grabbed worldwide interest. A one-ton cannon from the wreck is hauled out of the water in 2011.
Photograph by Holger Bennewitz, Reuters, Corbis
A conservator at East Carolina University holds a sword handle recovered from Queen Anne's Revenge.
Photograph by Mathew Waehner, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
This 18th-century iron shackle was recovered from the wreck of Queen Anne's Revenge, flagship of the infamous Caribbean pirate Blackbeard.
Photograph by Mathew Waehner, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
Archaeologists excavating the wreck of Queen Anne's Revenge got a glimpse of how pirates dined in the early 18th century when they recovered these pewter plates and a spoon.
Photograph by Mathew Waehner, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
This 1718 oil painting depicts the notorious Blackbeard before his death at the hands of Lt. Robert Maynard's forces.
Photograph by Corbis, Cordon Press
A conservator sprays water on an anchor from Queen Anne's Revenge to keep it wet while a conservation tank is filled.
Photograph by Bartosz Dajnowski, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
Blackbeard's pirates fired lead shot such as these recently found in the wreck of Queen Anne's Revenge—during battles at sea.
Photograph by Mathew Waehner, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
This bottle fragment and cork was recovered from Queen Anne's Revenge—among the thousands of artifacts, large and small, that have been found by on the wreck by archaeologists.
Photograph by Mathew Waehner, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
