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Ancient coins might solve mystery of 1600s pirate

Taipei Times 01 Apr 2021

“There’s extensive primary source documentation to show the American colonies were bases of operation for pirates,” said Bailey, 53, who holds a degree in anthropology from the University of Rhode Island and worked as an archeological assistant on explorations of the Whydah Gally pirate ship wreck off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the late 1980s ... .

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Ancient coins may solve mystery of notorious 17th-century English pirate

Belfast Telegraph 01 Apr 2021

AP/PA Images . / ... “There’s extensive primary source documentation to show the American colonies were bases of operation for pirates,” said Mr Bailey, 53, who holds a degree in anthropology from the University of Rhode Island and worked as an archaeological assistant on explorations of the Whydah Gally pirate ship wreck off Cape Cod in the late 1980s ... .

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Could these Arabian coins finally solve the riddle of the world's first manhunt? Silver change ...

The Daily Mail 01 Apr 2021

Pictured ... Pictured ... THE MUGHAL EMPIRE ... Advertisement ... RELATED ARTICLES. Previous 1 Next ... Share this article ... Finding the Arabian coin is not Mr Bailey's only pirate-themed find — in the late 1980s, he also served as an archaeological assistant during explorations of the wreck of the 18th Century pirate ship the Whydah Gally off of the coast of Cape Cod ... .

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Six skeletons are found on wreck of a pirate ship which sank off Cape Cod ...

The Daily Mail 12 Feb 2021

Human bones were found in the Cape Cod peninsula in Massachusetts where the Whydah Gally ship went down in stormy seas in 1717 ... Barry Clifford stands next to a display case containing silver coins recovered from the wreckage of the Whydah Gally at the Whydah Pirate Museum.

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6 skeletons found at a pirate shipwreck site could point to its fabled captain

Henry Herald 12 Feb 2021

But for the investigators at Whydah Pirate Museum in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, treasure could simply mean big rocks -- as long as there are skeletons tucked inside ... Clifford discovered the Whydah Gally, or ship, in 1984, making him the discoverer of the world's only authenticated pirate shipwreck.

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'Black Sam' Bellamy: 300-Year-Old Legendary Pirate Skeletons Found

Huffington Post 12 Feb 2021

According to the Whydah Pirate Museum, one set may even be those of the famed pirate himself, one of the many who perished when his ship, the Whydah Gally, sank off Cape Cod in a storm in 1717 ... The Whydah itself was a captured slave ship, something noted by Clifford in his announcement of the new discovery.

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Pirate skeletons found in famed 1717 Cape Cod shipwreck

Canada Dot Com 12 Feb 2021

The Whydah Gally is the world’s only certified pirate shipwreck ... The ship had once transported slaves ... The Whydah was Bellamy’s “bank,” in which he stored a varied treasure from those conquered ... .

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Pirate bones found on Cape Cod shipwreck

Divernet 11 Feb 2021

The bones of at least six pirates have been discovered at the site of the early 18th-century shipwreck Whydah Gally, off the Cape Cod peninsula on the USA’s Atlantic coast ... Built in London in 1715, the Whydah Gally had been trading slaves from West Africa for precious metals in the Caribbean before it was captured by Bellamy near Cuba.