An investigation of human remains from the 17th century British settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, has unearthed a long-hidden scandal in the family of the colony’s first governor. Thomas West became ...

This secret was taken to the grave. Archeologists believe they have finally uncovered the origins of what is believed to be the oldest gravestone in the United States — which belonged to an English ...

Detail of cut marks found on the girl’s jaw, or lower mandible in a stereo-microscopic photo. Smithsonian Institution / Don Hurlbert The harsh winter of 1609 in Virginia’s Jamestown Colony forced ...

Dogs with Indigenous ancestry were eaten during a period of starvation at Jamestown, the first English settlement in North America in the 17 th century, according to new research in American Antiquity ...

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