Many people will tell you that it’s impossible to know when the first pirates emerged, but those people are idiots. The first known pirate, Grug ‘The Bludgeoner’ U-gha, emerged 200 000 years ago in northern Europe.
Grug was a Neanderthal and what most would now consider a “cave man”. Much like modern common conceptions of pirates, Grug plundered treasure and valuables from his prehistoric neighbours. At the time
