I just don’t get the excitement over mundane archeological digs. However, if it was me getting paid to scour through the dirt and detritus maybe I’d be for it. ;)
I can’t help but think money for this “project” could have been better spent elsewhere.
Yeah, night basketball programs are far more important than history.
I have to disagree. IMHO, this is the kind of stuff universities should be researching. As an amateur genealogist, I have to be, by extension, a historian. It’s really upsetting how much of our history has been lost because people just didn’t care to preserve it, on top of all the wars where courthouses, etc., were burned to the ground. Did you know that just within the past 5 years, someone looked more closely at a map of coastal North Carolina from the mid-1500s and realized there was a patch on it...upon lifting the patch, they discovered a symbol of a fort? It had been a secret “right under their noses” for over 400 years. This has led them inland to the Chowan River, where they have discovered broken English pottery dating to the Elizabethan period. In other words, they may have found the Lost Colony.