WILLIAMSBURG — At just 4 years old, Ethan Rose is already something of a budding history enthusiast. Last year, the preschooler from Washington, D.C., had an archaeology phase, and right now, his ...

For America’s 250th birthday, the Washington Examiner is taking you to Virginia’s Historic Triangle, where the story of our ...

Few American landmarks wear their age as quietly as Jamestown, Virginia. Standing on a small peninsula along the James River, it looks peaceful now, almost ordinary. Yet beneath its soil, centuries of ...

Archaeological findings at Jamestown are shedding new light on the brutal "Starving Time" of 1609-1610. Evidence from human ...

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 ...

For America’s 250th birthday, the Washington Examiner is taking you to Virginia’s Historic Triangle, where the story of our nation began. From the Jamestown settlement, the first permanent English ...

David Givens, an archaeologist in Jamestown, Virginia, is peering into a pit on a hot, cloudless afternoon in July. A year earlier, his team had been excavating at this spot and chanced upon a circle ...

Blacksburg, Va., Oct. 23, 2002 -- If a teacher tells a classroom full of seventh graders that "x" number of people died of starvation and diseases in Colonial Jamestown, the students see a number. If ...

JAMESTOWN, Va. — The dig site where archaeologist Sean Romo has just found the ancient fragment of armor is surrounded by a double layer of green sandbags to keep out water. A dig site nearby is ...

Colonial Williamsburg prepares for its largest-ever July 4th fireworks show and free historic programming to celebrate the nation's semiquincentennial.

“Hare Indian Dog” by John Woodhouse Audubon, from “The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America” (1845-1848). (Whitney Western Art Museum 14.88.2, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyo.) They were ...