Where to find pirate treasure

The bar is said to be from the wreckage of Capt Kidd's ship, the Adventure Galley. Barry Clifford led a team which discovered the suspected treasure. Soldiers watched over the silver at a ceremony attended by the president and diplomats.

The plan is to exhibit the bars in a museum. Who was Captain Kidd? Image source, AFP. There have been numerous searches for William Kidd's loot. He appeared before the bar of the House of Commons before his execution. Related Topics. Published 18 May But within a few months, Levasseur turned to the more lucrative career of pirating.

They landed men on board and killed the crew. Levasseur, who had no idea what was on the ship, was astonished with the haul. The pirates quickly fled to their headquarters in Madagascar with the British Navy in hot pursuit, and the booty was divided between the crew. No one except Levasseur now knew its location. But the cryptogram, which has been tested to be genuine parchment from the 18th-Century by the British Museum, just looks like 17 lines of jumbled symbols to the untrained eye.

Levasseur was an intellectual, a Greek and Latin scholar who was versed in masonic symbology. Cruise-Wilkins spent years trying to decode the cryptogram, using everything from Greek, Hebrew, astrology, astronomy, mythology and the occult to break the elaborate system of clues.

Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Recommended for you. It wasn't until they found the ship's bell, which read "The Whydah ," that people started to believe them. The Whydah was the 50th ship the pirate captain took. It was a slave ship built by the Royal African Company and was filled with cash from selling its slave bounty in Jamaica. The discovery added new details in the history of piracy as it revealed many pirates were people who had been brought from Africa to be sold as slaves but had found new freedom joining crews like Black Sam's.

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