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A peek at the only pistol found of the wreck site of Queen Anne's Revenge/La Concorde
Conservators from QAR analyze books suspected to be arsenic-laced
When thinking about the ocean, sailing, and history, superstition and folklore abound.
When studying maritime history, the presence and impact of women is seemingly less well-documented than that of men.
As a fully equipped archaeological conservation lab, the QAR Lab is capable of treating artifacts from any number of archaeological sites, like the
My name is Tim Smith, and I am a Staff Archaeologist and the Lake Phelps Canoe Conservator for the Office of State Archaeology, based at the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab in Greenville, NC.
In 1485, a young girl named Lalla Aicha bib Ali ibn Rashid al Alami was born into a wealthy Muslim family. These were turbulent times in Granada.
As you have been reading our blog, you have undoubtedly become aware of some of the difficulties involved in identifying objects.
In about 1698, a young woman found herself in jail for stealing, pregnant with her married employer’s illegitimate child and no husband to support her. Despite these grim circumstances, Anne Bonny’s mother was soon released from jail, raising her daughter disguised as a boy and living as the lady of the house with her still married-to-another-woman former employer. The three of them eventually moved from Ireland to the Carolinas, where Anne’s father bought a plantation and started a business of his own.