Pirate’s booty corrects a myth about West African gold
In an undated image provided by Tobias Skowronek, a gold piece recovered from the Whydah Gally, which sank in a storm off the coast of Massachusetts in 1717. Centuries-old European tales about Gold Coast traders adulterating precious metals hundreds of years ago are challenged by the famous Whydah Gally shipwreck. [Tobias Skowronek via The New …