A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century.

Two centuries after the Barbary Wars, America is once again fighting a war overseas to protect its shipping, as well as that ...

Photos show the valuables, likely hidden during an ancient pirate attack. Thomas Schäfer and other archaeologists have been ...

If you were asked to picture the most successful pirate of all time, who would you imagine? Perhaps Long John Silver complete with a perching parrot, or a swashbuckling Blackbeard? Think again!

He called for privateers—that is, pirates operating with the approval of a government—to aid a war effort against France and Spain. The murky, oft-mythologized history of piracy is brought ...