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Pirates, Gold, and a 300-Year-Old Mystery — Solved by Science When the pirate ship Whydah Gally sank off Cape Cod on April 26, 1717, it took its secrets to the bottom of the ocean. Now, more than 300 years later, the gold artifacts recovered from the wreck are rewriting history. For centuries, European traders claimed…

The Whydah Project’s Director of Underwater Archaeology has been recognized among fifty people changing the world. We are proud to announce that Brandon Clifford — divemaster, underwater field archaeologist, Executive Director of the Center for Historic Shipwreck Preservation, and Director of the Whydah Project — has been named to the Explorers Club EC50 Class of…

What the Whydah’s Brass Rings Reveal About the Slave Trade — and the Benin Bronzes The Whydah Pirate Museum contributed to a landmark peer-reviewed study connecting artifacts from the wreck site to one of the most important questions in African art history. When divers working the Whydah wreck site off Cape Cod pulled up 768…

Don’t miss Expedition Whydah on Beyond Oak Island, season 3 episode 8 “Captain Bellamy’s Bounty” airing 1/3/23 and episode 11 “Return to the Whydah” airing 1/24/23 on History and streaming services. Rick Lagina, Tony Sampson and Matty Blake join Barry and Brandon Clifford to search for artifacts and treasure connected to the infamous Whydah shipwreck off…