Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of archaeologists and filmmakers found six shipwrecks in and near Nassau, the capital of the island of New Providence.

When you think of pirates, you might picture a life like that shown in "Pirates of the Caribbean," full of adventure and mischief. But what you may have never stopped to think about is what pirates ...

Historian Angus Konstam joins WIRED to answer the internet's swashbuckling questions about pirates and piracy. Where did the stereotypical pirate accent come from? What did pirates do for fun? Why do ...

Saturday marks the 308th anniversary of the sinking of the pirate ship, Whydah, after one of the worst storms in history hit the boat off the coast of Cape Cod. The ship was commissioned in 1715 by ...