BUTLER, Mo. -- A foot below the grasses of rural Bates County, Ann Raab's trowel has uncovered scars of a countryside torched by the Union Army. Burnt wood embedded in rock. Melted glass, scorched ...

What remains of it lies, buried and long forgotten, beside today’s Fredericksburg City Hall where a new courthouse will soon rise. Now, thanks to intense scrutiny by archaeologists and local ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - Our hometowns are full of history, and this week, people are invited to see it uncovered at Historic Sandusky in Lynchburg. “History is fascinating if you dig down in the right ...

HAMPTON, Va. (AP) — Organizers of a planned dig in Hampton say they hope to shed light on a little-known chapter in Civil War history. The two-acre archaeological dig is at the site of what was called ...

STAUNTON — It's a Saturday afternoon and the first day of the archaeological dig at Cabell Log House. There's excitement in the air. Nine students from James Madison University with their professor, ...

Ever since Rodney Joslin received his first metal detector as a child, he has enjoyed metal detecting as a hobby. Today he is ...

Introduction / Clarence R. Geier, Lawrence E. Babits, and Douglas D. Scott -- Part I: The flow of battle and battlefield landscapes -- Civil War archaeology in the Trans-Mississippi west / Douglas D.

Instead of sitting in the classroom, students played in the dirt. Eleven Shawsville Middle School students participated in an archaeological dig May 15 as part of the gifted and talented program for ...

The Heritage Commission of Annapolis is pushing for the city to sponsor an archaeological survey of a piece of land set to become affordable housing, where a 19th-century farm enslaved African ...