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Captain Kidd's Pirate Treasure Found!

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The treasure of notorious pirate Captain William Kidd has allegedly been found off the coast of Madagascar.

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The BBC reports that a 50kg silver bar has been brought ashore by divers, thought to have been found amongst the wreckage of Kidd's ship. The bar has been guarded by soldiers in a ceremony to recognise the find, which was led by underwater explorer Barry Clifford.

Read more about William Kidd here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kidd
 

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So that is what 1 cwt of silver looks like. Is it laying on ballast stones?
 
Nice find mate! :onya
 
Madagascar!? :shock
But Edgar Allan Poe said Charleston. I have to redo everything.:modding
 
Cpt. Kidd's treasure or not... This is EXCITING news!! Thanks @Armada :)
 
We need Madagascar as a setting for a proper pirate game! Why do the big game companies refuse to understand this??? Those Oriental trade routes were far more lucrative than anything coming from the Caribbean.
 
It might not be the treasure of William Kidd. Barry Clifford is the same guy who claimed to have found the Santa Maria, which it obviously wasn't. The UNESCO also has some doubts that the wreckage really was the Adventure Galley.
 
Well, this is quite disappointing, Barry Clifford is fast loosing his credibility.

Claims that a team of explorers discovered a famous 17th Century pirate shipwreck off the coast of Madagascar have been dismissed by UN experts.

A 50kg (7st 9lb) bar of "silver treasure" recovered from the sea was in fact 95% lead, the UN statement said.

It was presented to Madagascar's president at a special ceremony in May.

The wreckage that the ingot was found in was not that of the ship captained by notorious Scottish pirate William Kidd, the UN investigators added.

A technical team from Unesco, the UN's cultural arm, was sent to investigate the find, which made global headlines.

"The mission showed that several historic wrecks lie indeed in the bays of Sainte-Marie island," the Unesco statement said.

"However, what had been identified as the Adventure Galley of the pirate Captain Kidd has been found by the experts... to be a broken part of the Sainte-Marie port constructions."

Authorities in Madagascar should "only permit interventions by a competent team led by a qualified underwater archaeologist", Michel L'Hour, head of the Unesco technical team, added.

Capt Kidd, who inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's book Treasure Island, was first appointed by the British authorities to tackle piracy but later became a ruthless criminal and was executed in 1701.

In May US explorer Barry Clifford said: "Captain's Kidd's treasure is the stuff of legends.

"People have been looking for it for 300 years. To literally have it hit me on the head - I thought what the heck just happened to me. I really didn't expect this."
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Original story here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-33524216#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
 
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