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Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the ...
Join us on a hunt through history as we search for and recover Civil War artifacts hidden underground for over 100 years. Each piece we unearth—from coins and buttons to bullets and buckles—offers a ...
It started as a mundane environmental cleanup along the Congaree River in Columbia, South Carolina, and ended as a trip back ...
Camp Lawton is unique among Civil War POW sites in that almost the entire length of the stockade is largely intact. Little archaeology has been done at Andersonville, for instance, because ...
Residents hope ancient tomb will revive tourism: 'In the old days, a lot of foreign tourists used to come to Maarat just to ...
The trunk also contained a Civil War-era dress and bonnet and an assortment ... Michael was fascinated by the cup as well as the other artifacts which tell the story of how soldiers’ lived ...
The museum opened in 2006 and is reportedly the largest collection of Civil War artifacts west of the Mississippi. The museum is owned by North Texas Oilman Ray Richey, the president and curator.