The people of North Carolina are getting a different kind of gift this holiday season.

Instead of precious metals wrapped in pretty paper, archeologists are offering fragments of history enveloped in silt and brine.

The latest artifacts from the presumed Queen Anne's Revenge, flagship of the notorious pirate Blackbeard, were previewed Tuesday at the state project's official conservation lab at the West Research Campus of East Carolina University.

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