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Filling in the blanks at James Fort
When a place reaches as far back as Jamestown, the dirt can teem with secrets. Nearly every time archaeologists open a hole on this ancient stretch of riverfront land, they find a jumbled puzzle of subterranean clues reflecting every change that has...
Tags: Arts and Culture, John Smith, Wars and Interventions, Animals, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia)
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Early Jamestown had way with mud
More than 400 years after America’s first permanent English settlement rose from the ground, archaeologists are combining local clay, loam and black needle rush grass in an experimental effort to recreate the unique method used to construct some...
Tags: Arts and Culture, John Smith, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Historic Jamestowne
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Civil War fort unearthed by William and Mary dig
When College of William and Mary president Benjamin Ewell returned home at the Civil War’s end, he found the Wren Yard violently transformed. Burned by Union troops in September 1862, the charred brick ruins of the Sir Christopher Wren Building...
Tags: College of William and Mary, Career and Workplace, Arts and Culture, Wars and Interventions, Unions
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Probing for pioneering black school in Williamsburg
Stop by the corner of Prince George and Boundary streets on almost any morning and you’re likely to see the old brick walks busy with pedestrian traffic. Curious tourists shuffle past between Merchants Square and the Historic Area, mixing with...
Tags: Slavery, College of William and Mary, Science and Technology, Arts and Culture, Teaching and Learning
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Was Mexican prison warden's kidnap retaliation for penal reforms?
World NowThree years ago, when the armed gang showed up at Cieneguillas prison, they managed to free 53 inmates -- including killers, kidnappers and drug cartel gunmen. Not a shot was fired, and the warden was arrested on suspicion that it was an inside job.... -
Google Street View now available for Mexico archaeological sites
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Bones found in hunt for King Richard III's remains
World NowArchaeologists digging in central England for the remains of Richard III, the king immortalized as a murderous tyrant by William Shakespeare, have found bones that in many ways match his profile –- literally.... -
Search for grave of King Richard III to be extended
World NowBritish archaeologists searching for the grave of King Richard III are given an extra week after reporting promising findings beneath a parking lot in central England. Richard was killed in battle in 1485, but the whereabouts of the his remains have... -
Fossilized human feces hints at long-lost, 13,500-year-old West Coast culture
FOX NewsMaybe the 1992 movie Brendan Fraser film Encino Man wasn’t too far from the mark? Fossilized human feces and other evidence from a West Coast cave demonstrates the existence of a long-lost, 13,500-year-old American culture, scientists said...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Fossils, University of Oregon, Science and Technology, Arts and Culture
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Ancient attractions
An authentic Indiana Jones is alive and well, right here in town. Baltimore, meet Douglas Comer.
Operating rather inconspicuously from his Charles Village-based firm Cultural Site Research and Management, Comer has overseen some of the region's most...Tags: UNESCO, Shirley MacLaine, Trips and Vacations, Fells Point, Hotels and Accommodations
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McGrath Historical Remains Found Could Predate 1470
Channel 2 NewsThe ancient remains of three people found in the town of McGrath are expected to be sent off for carbon dating in the next week, but results on some of the materials found around the bodies has added a glimpse into how old they could be. In October,...Tags: Arts and Culture
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CT's Vampires: Haunting Archaeological Evidence of a Strange Historical Panic and Desecrated Grave Sites
By now, you've probably heard about the state's lame-ass new "Connecticut – Still Revolutionary" tourism slogan. Maybe what we need is to juice it up with something historically cool and spooky. How about adding: "And still Land of the Undead!"...
Tags: Washington, DC, Tuberculosis, Arts and Culture, Norwich, Bela Lugosi
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