Underdeveloped in France and Europe, this recent theme in archaeology has been conducting research and archaeological excavations for nearly 50 years along the east coast of the United States, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean where several pirate shipwrecks have been discovered and identified.
These scientific programs provide key information for a better understanding of these sailors, former military personnel or merchants, who were drawn to a more independent life.
Our mission
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Underdeveloped in France and Europe, this recent theme in archaeology has been conducting research and archaeological excavations for nearly 50 years along the east coast of the United States, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean where several pirate shipwrecks have been discovered and identified.
These scientific programs provide key information for a better understanding of these sailors, former military personnel or merchants, who were drawn to a more independent life.
Our mission
Underdeveloped in France and Europe, this recent theme in archaeology has been conducting research and archaeological excavations for nearly 50 years along the east coast of the United States, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean where several pirate shipwrecks have been discovered and identified.
These scientific programs provide key information for a better understanding of these sailors, former military personnel or merchants, who were drawn to a more independent life.
Our mission
Popular figures in literature and cinema, pirates plundered the seas in the 17th and 18th centuries. Following two excavation campaigns led by the archaeologist Jean Soulat, Stéphane Bégoin takes us along their traces in Mauritius and Madagascar. A production by Gedeon Programmes of Stéphane Millières and Valérie Guérin for the channels Arte and Histoire TV.
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History Hunters:
Decoding Archaeological Piracy
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