The area we call West Virginia has a long and ancient Native American history. Long before the Shawnee, Mingo and Wyandot tribes roamed the mountains and river ...

It’s good to be back at Historic Fort Steuben. I love spending time with our local history and helping to make it accessible to the public through our programs and events. I am constantly reminded, ...

Clues hiding in the details of a 400-year-old map could solve the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke, which scholars have spent hundreds of years searching for.

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analysed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John White, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered “conclusive physical evidence” of the first church site, circa 1610, in Hampton in what is the oldest continuous English-speaking parish in North America.

The only clue left behind was the word Croatoan carved on a wooden post. An ancient map dating back 400 years, titled La Virginea Pars and exhibited at the British Museum, was examined by experts, ...

The location happened to be a dig site called 31BR246, where, in 2007, researchers excavated a specific type of English pottery that was “limited to the earliest settlement sites in Virginia ...

You can never have enough plates and pottery to liven up your space. Deep Black is an online storefront founded by Sherród Faulks in Portsmouth, Virginia. Since 2020, Deep Black keeps a regular ...

Most items on display come from Dayton collectors and also include animal bones, weapons, artwork, carvings, masks, pottery ... SunWatch Indian village and archeological park.

Advert According to archaeologist Nicholas Luccketti, the pottery discovered was 'limited to the earliest settlement sites in Virginia, possibly dating back ... another island just south of Roanoke ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — For International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Library of Virginia is remembering Gerda Nothmann Luner, a Berlin native who survived German concentration camps and later ...