According to Jamestown Rediscovery, visitors will step back in time to 1621 to join Sir Francis Wyatt, the colony’s newly arrived Governor, for an early Virginia Christmas celebration with costumed ...

SECRETS OF THE DEAD “Jamestown’s Dark Winter” Wednesday, November 26 at 10:00 pm Jamestown, Virginia. The site of the first ...

WILLIAMSBURG — Jamestown Settlement and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown are inviting the public to celebrate the ...

Colonists at Jamestown — one of the first English colonies in North America — likely killed and ate local dogs, a new study finds. Most of the dog bones excavated at Jamestown have cut marks on them, ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists said Wednesday that they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the earliest American colonists at Jamestown, Va., survived harsh conditions by turning ...

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 became ...

Come celebrate the holiday season at the Jamestown Settlement and American Revolution Museum at Yorktown to go back in time ...

JAMESTOWN — Early American colonists at Jamestown butchered and ate indigenous dogs as well as the dogs they brought with them from England when food was scarce. Historic records, archaeological work ...

Mark Summers normally shares untold stories of Jamestown colonists on outdoor walking tours, surrounded by people. Today, the director of public and youth programs at Historic Jamestowne does the same ...

But Jamestown proved to be neither paradise nor gold mine. In the heat of that first summer at the mosquito-infested settlement, 46 of the colonists died of fever, starvation or Indian arrows. By year ...

When the Jamestown Rediscovery archaeology team began excavating a pit on the north side of the church tower, the goal was to discover what it had been used for at the time. But what they hadn’t ...