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RALEIGH, N.C. — Intersal, the company that discovered the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard's flagship, filed an $8.2 million lawsuit against the state in Superior Court in July 2015, alleging North Carolina officials breached their contract with the company over the site.On Feb. 23, the N.C. Superior Court made a decision, ruling in favor of Intersal...
The lawsuit filed in Wake County Superior Court accuses the state of violating several parts of those agreements, including improperly displaying thousands of images from the Queen Anne's Revenge site and not including the company in plans for commercial video opportunities...
Here is the link sent to me by DJ.
NC court rules in favor of company that discovered Blackbeard's flagship (wral.com)
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Here is another treasure story from WRAL News.
To hear the treasure hunters tell it, the Graveyard of the Atlantic is a much quieter place these days.
Below the waves that batter and reshape North Carolina's coastline, the shifting sand is dotted with hundreds of ships that met their ends on the notorious shoals. Monetarily at least, most of the wrecks aren't worth much. But some date back to a time of plundered silver, mined and minted in the New World – and targeted by the period's most notorious pirates.
Dozens have sought that sunken fortune off the coast over the last few decades – amateur historians, seasoned salvagers and one former cocaine smuggler. All have failed.
And fewer are trying...
And here is the link for the rest of that article.
Off North Carolina's coast, lure of sunken treasure fades (wral.com)
I don't know about all of that. I have a different perspective.
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Here is a tiny bit of a lengthy article about 7000-year-old finds made at the mouth of the Miami River, or as the author puts it, "the dawn of civilization."
For the past year and a half, with scant public attention, squads of archaeologists digging at the Miami River site of a planned Related Group residential tower complex have unearthed remarkable finds, consisting of thousands of fragmentary prehistoric tools and artifacts, rare and well-preserved animal and plant remnants, vestiges of ancient structures and human remains — including some relics dating back to the earliest days of civilization on the planet.
Independent scientists say the findings, which include 7,000-year-old spearheads, are clear and abundant evidence of a continuous indigenous settlement in the area stretching much farther back in time than previously thought. The discovery, they say, may be the most significant in a series of archaeological finds made at the mouth of the Miami River in the past 25 years that include the Miami Circle National Historic Landmark, thought to be around 2,000 years old...
Thanks to DJ for this link too.
Prehistoric artifacts found at Miami condo construction site | Miami Herald
Think of the thousands of people in modern times that have walked over the bustling prehistoric site without any inkling of the thousands of years and generations that lived their lives, growing up, making families, and dealing with the minutiae and basic requirements of physical daily existence and perhaps occasionally pondering the big mysterious questions much like we do today. One generation after another passes into the forgotten past.
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I was looking at the old treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com website and the old posts that continue to be read a lot, and among those posts was one that I looked at once again. It is a YouTube video that I think is absolutely amazing and should be seen by everyone. I has remained popular for a reason.
Here is the link.
(65) Where did God come from ? - Best answer Dr. Kent Hovind vs Reinhold Schlieter Debate - YouTube
Tbe one that follows it is exceptional too. It gets into topics of sedimentation and ancient times.
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The Treasure Coast surf will be increasing, peaking out around Friday. I hope I get a chance to get out. I haven't been able to for a few days.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net