A team of archaeologists and filmmakers has located and documented the first shipwrecks linked to the Golden Age of Piracy (1690s-1720s), providing new primary sources for understanding this historical period. The discovery and film record will enable scholars to reconstruct the material culture and maritime history of pirate-era Caribbean.
Good News Network · Thursday, 4 June 2026
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In the real Caribbean, there were once real pirates, and now a team of archaeologists and filmmakers has discovered the first shipwrecks that can help tell the story of the Golden Age of Piracy. Between the 1690s and 1720s, a cast of pirates including illustrious names as Blackbeard, Benjamin Hornigold, Calico Jack Rackham and Anne […] The post Shipwrecks from the Age of the Real ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ Found–and Filmed–for the First Time appeared first on Good News Network.