This video tells of the excavation of the slave village in Maryland where Frederick Douglass once lived as a child. The village, called The Long Green, was part of a plantation known as the Wye House Farm, which has been owned by the same family for 11 generations.

A cobbled road that may have been one of the first streets in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been unearthed. “It just looks like somebody brought in a couple of loads of gravel and dumped them on the road to create a nice solid surface,” said archaeologist Jim Moore. The seventeenth-century road may have led to the parish church.

Microscopic and chemical analysis of fossilized teeth suggest that early hominids ate a diet that varied by geographic region. Paleoanthropologist Peter Ungar adds that “shapes of the teeth alone tell you what the animal is capable of eating, not what they eat on a day-to-day basis.”

A two-day dig at Queenborough Castle in Kent, England, yielded medieval pottery and a belt buckle. A 100-year-old slate pencil was also found.

Seven people were arrested in Sri Lanka on charges of treasure hunting. The police confiscated a backhoe along with the artifacts.

An eight-foot-long cannon from the Queen Anne’s Revenge is expected to be recovered next week. Blackbeard’s pirate ship sank off the coast of North Carolina in 1718.

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