Pirates of the Caribbean isn't the most historically accurate franchise, but these 5 real-life pirates would be perfect additions to POTC 6.

Pirate ships, treasure maps, and bottles of rum are just a few of the things that come to mind when thinking of pirates. These popular symbols and many others have their origins in the golden age ...

The golden age of pirates was from 1680 to 1730, when they ruled the seas with almost no one stopping them. Pirates had plenty of vessels to loot, because many ships were going back and forth ...

Captain Jeff MacKinnon and his crew of veterans suspect there’s a fortune in the Mira River. If they find it, they can’t keep ...

We were touring "Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah From Slave Ship to Pirate Ship," an interactive exhibit that the Nauticus maritime science museum is displaying at the Half Moone ...

Real Pirates When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily through Sept. 1 Where: San Diego Natural History Museum, Balboa Park Tickets: $15 to $27 Phone: (619) 232-3821 Online: sdnhm.org ...

The pirates themselves are no less impressed by the romantic myth than their Western sympathizers, because they've all seen the same movies (pirated, of course), and they want to be part of the ...

" Real Pirates," which opened last week at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, tells the story of the Whydah (pronounced WID-ah), an 18th-century pirate ship that was discovered off the ...