Blackbeard鈥檚 stolen vessel, the Queen Anne鈥檚 Revenge, ran aground off the North Carolina coastline three hundred years ago this summer.
It's a lot like a detective entering a crime scene.
-Wilde-Ramsing
To mark the anniversary, a pair of archaeologists whoworked on the wreckage together for years have written a comprehensive look at the many artifacts they recovered from the ocean floor and the stories those artifacts reveal about the infamous pirate and life aboard the ship.
He understood mathematics, he was educated, he was a strategist and he was a business man.
-Carnes-McNaughton on Blackbeard
Guest host Anita Rao speaks with , program archaeologist and curator at Fort Bragg's Cultural Resources Management Program and longtime volunteer on the excavation project. also joins the conversation. He is a former deputy state underwater archaeologist of North Carolina and former director Queen Anne鈥檚 Revenge Shipwreck Project.
Wilde-Ramsing and Carnes-McNaughton will speak about their book at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh on Sunday, July 8 at 2 p.m.
