WASHINGTON — One man was thought to be the first Anglican minister in the Americas. Another, an early explorer of the mid-Atlantic region, was a rival of Capt. John Smith. And two of them, kin of Sir ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

At the start of the 17 th century, a group of Englishmen docked their ships on the coast of North America in a bid to start a settlement, which they named Jamestown, Virginia – after King James I ...

JAMESTOWN, Va. -- Archaeologists have uncovered human remains of four of the earliest leaders of the English colony that would become America, buried for more than 400 years near the altar of what was ...

They were dogs that howled but didn’t bark. They resembled foxes, or wolves. And they had been the companions of Native Americans for thousands of years, after their ancestors arrived with early ...