Algiers, a thriving city under Ottoman control, served as the strategic center for Mediterranean piracy. Between 1525 and ...

Below the Mediterranean, a pirate shipwreck was discovered at a depth of around 2,700 feet. The vessel was located in international waters between Morocco and Spain in the western Mediterranean.

From William Kidd to Helen Gloag, meet the daring Scots whose exploits rivalled the Caribbean’s most famous buccaneers.

A Pirates of the Caribbean-inspired ship is sailing from Ayia Napa in Cyprus, on regular four-hour cruises. The "Black Pearl" has food, drink, party games, and even its own Captain Jack Sparrow on ...

New ideas of security spelled the end of piracy on the Mediterranean Sea during the nineteenth century. As European states ended their military conflicts and privateering wars against one another, ...