Colonial Williamsburg and Jamestown Settlement try to help people learn about the past ... visitors can watch as archaeologists continue to reveal details about the original 1607 James Fort.

Retired Virginia archaeologist Ivor Noël Hume, the former director of archaeology at nearby Colonial Williamsburg, notes that the fort was occupied until the 1620s and was rebuilt several times.

Civil War fort at Jamestown is dug up to get at 1607 site May 7, 2012 More than 13 years ago William Kelso, chief archaeologist for Jamestown Rediscovery, and his colleagues have recovered 1.4 ...

WASHINGTON – Archaeologists have uncovered human remains of four of the earliest leaders of the English colony that would become America, buried for more than 400 years near the altar of what… ...

WASHINGTON — One man was thought to be the first Anglican minister in the Americas. Another, an early explorer of the mid-Atlantic region, was a rival of Capt. John Smith. And two of them, kin ...

Recently, archaeologists found the remains of charcoal in the north bulwark area of James Fort, evidence of fire in Jamestown that corroborates with written personal accounts from the time when ...

When the first archaeological excavations began at Jamestown in 1894, the study of the past through digging was not merely new but still being born. Just 15 years had passed since 108 amateur enthu… ...

Colonial Jamestown, assailed by climate change, is facing disaster Chronic flooding lands 400-year-old Virginia site on the endangered list May 4, 2022 More than 3 years ago ...

In the re-created fort at Jamestown Settlement, the Lord of Misrule — known as the grand captain of mischief — will perform 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. daily Dec. 23-31.

Experts have provided the grisly goods to back up 17th-century accounts of cannibalism during the Jamestown colony's "starving time" — including a skull that shows signs of being chopped at and ...

Colonial Williamsburg and Jamestown Settlement try to help people learn about the past ... visitors can watch as archaeologists continue to reveal details about the original 1607 James Fort.

The team identified the remains of the Rev. Robert Hunt, Jamestown’s first Anglican minister who was known as a peacemaker between rival colonial leaders; Capt. Gabriel Archer, a nemesis of one ...