In today’s History newsletter: The pharaoh who built more monuments and sired more children than any other Egyptian king, museums are creating battle plans in the wake of climate change, and historians weigh the legacy of the legendary outlaw, Pancho Villa. 

But first: Treasure from this “golden age” pirate shipwreck is still being discovered.

A famously stylish dresser, Captain Samuel Bellamy favored expensive black velvet waistcoats, knee breeches, silk stockings, and shoes with silver buckles. The flamboyant pirate and his crew had amassed a fortune that would be worth $140 million today, making him one of the wealthiest pirates in recorded history. For months the young pirate and his fleet plundered vessels in the Caribbean and along the eastern coast of colonial America. But a violent nor’easter off Cape Cod in the spring of 1717 dashed their flagship, the Whydah Gally, against a line of sandbars, drowning Bellamy and all but two of the 146-man crew.

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