Eldorado Posted April 1, 2021 #1 Share Posted April 1, 2021 (edited) A handful of coins unearthed from a pick-your-own-fruit orchard in rural Rhode Island and other random corners of New England may help solve one of the planet's oldest cold cases. The villain in this tale: a murderous English pirate who became the world's most-wanted criminal after plundering a ship carrying Muslim pilgrims home to India from Mecca, then eluded capture by posing as a slave trader. "It's a new history of a nearly perfect crime," said Jim Bailey, an amateur historian and metal detectorist who found the first intact 17th-century Arabian coin in a meadow in Middletown. Full article at Phys Org Henry Every: Wikipedia Edited April 1, 2021 by Eldorado 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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