Oceanic researchers hunting for a sunken warship stumbled across the pristine lower hull of an incredibly armed Barbary corsair.

A marine exploration venture in the Mediterranean unexpectedly discovered a shipwrecked pirate ship nearly 3,000 feet ...

In the early 19th century, the seizure of vessels by North African Barbary pirates became a crisis for the young American ...

One reason the U.S. Navy was created in the late 1700s and early 1800s was to counter north African states’ attacks on shipping, during conflicts that became known as the Barbary wars. That situation ...