Pirates may not be as prevalent as they once were, but they can still be a nuisance on a cruise ship. This is how ships use ...

Centuries-old shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, long thought to have been the property of pirates, are actually Danish ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica that were previously believed to be pirate ships are ...

Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been ...

The 18th-century vessels were shipwrecked in 1710, and archaeologists only recently discovered that the ships – long believed to be pirate ships – were used to transport slaves. Now ...

However, for years, they were believed to be pirate ships, the museum said in a news release. Fisherpeople who established themselves in the area in 1826 thought this because the ships’ remains ...

The notorious pirate Barbarossa, who eventually went on to be an Admiral in the Ottoman Navy, was surprisingly half Greek.