Treasure hunters have been vying for years to be the first to find the 500-tonne vessel apparently boarded by Kidd in the Indian Ocean. Remarkably, it has turned up in 10ft of crystal clear waters ...

From New Jersey to Vietnam, there’s barely a swatch of the world left untouched by the swashbuckling pirate Captain Kidd’s evasive legacy. For 300 years, treasure hunters have been scouring ...

William Kidd was a notorious pirate hunter turned notorious pirate, and legend has it that he left treasure behind. Now, a group of archaeologists thinks they’ve found part of Captain Kidd’s ...

Underwater explorers think they might have discovered treasure which used to belong to the notorious pirate Captain Kidd. A large silver bar with markings on it was found by American explorer ...

One of the most infamous pirates of all time, Captain Kidd was said to have amassed treasure worth £100,000 - a staggering £12 million now - before he was arrested for piracy and murder.

But UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural body, immediately criticised Clifford’s methods and said he may have damaged a precious archaeological site in his hunt for treasure. Captain Kidd ...

Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters A team of archaeologists has unearthed what they believe to be a stash of treasures left behind by the swashbuckling Scottish pirate Captain Kidd, according to The Guardian.

Buried treasure that may have belonged to the notorious Scottish pirate Captain Kidd has been discovered by archaeologists in Madagascar. The office of the country's president, Hery ...

It was meant to have solved an enduring mystery of the high seas – the whereabouts of the sunken treasure of 17th-Century pirate William Kidd. Plucked from the bottom of the Indian Ocean ...

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