The foundations and cellars of George Washington’s boyhood home have been uncovered at Ferry Farm, Virginia. Philip Levy of the University of South Florida oversaw the excavation, which recovered a half million artifacts, including a Masonic pipe, wig curlers, and a carnelian bead of a form popular in West Africa. Washington sold the property in […]

Archaeologists have found a wooden statue of a merman, whose eyes would have been made of precious stones, on a seventeenth-century ship off England’s southwest coast.  Iron cannon, barrels of cargo, pottery, a copper skillet, and a silver spoon were also recovered. “The whole vessel would have been a spectacular work of art,” said David Parham of […]