Friends and colleagues: Legendary personages are not always purely 
mythological or simply the stuff of Hollywood movies: sometimes they are 
very real.  Such is the case with the pirate Blackbeard, the subject of 
Queen Anne's Revenge Overview, the latest video feature on our nonprofit 
streaming-media Web site, The Archaeology Channel 
(http://www.archaeologychannel.org).

Blackbeard, the most notorious pirate in the history of seafaring, met his 
end on the North Carolina coast in 1718.  In 1996, divers searching for 
shipwrecks discovered a room-sized mound of cannons, anchors, and ballast 
stones that state underwater archaeologists agreed quite possibly was the 
remains of Blackbeard's flagship, Queen Anne's Revenge, lost at that 
location in 1718.   This video highlights recent underwater excavations 
conducted at the site, representing one of the most ambitious archaeological 
assessments of a North Carolina shipwreck.  Through the artifacts recovered 
from that site, Blackbeard steps out from the shadows of the past and 
becomes a tangible historical figure.

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Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA
President and Executive Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
http://www.archaeologychannel.org

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