Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who commanded the heavily armed flagship Queen Anne's Revenge during the Golden Age of Piracy,,.After blockading Charleston and running his ship aground at Beaufort Inlet, he was killed in a 1718 battle at Ocracoke Inlet by forces led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard,,.Today, the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab in North Carolina houses over 420,000 artifacts recovered from his shipwreck, serving as an "archaeological time capsule" of 18th-century maritime life