Like Jamestown, the St. Mary's settlement was abandoned and the state capital moved to Annapolis in the 1690s. The site -- which is about the size of a football field -- was left alone and today ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Buried underground in the middle of an open field, roughly a half-mile inland from St. Mary's River, archaeologists have ...
DNA analysis of 49 colonists from 17th-century St. Mary's City reveals over 1.3 million living genetic relatives of Maryland's founding settlers. Researchers used DNA to trace the migration of St.
Names vanished from many graves in Maryland’s first permanent English settlement even when the people had shaped the colony’s earliest decades. Historical DNA restored family relationships among some ...
Archaeologists in Maryland have discovered the lost site of St. Mary’s Fort, the state’s first settlement. Built in 1634, the 387-year-old defensive garrison was just the fourth English settlement in ...
Forty-nine people buried in Maryland’s first colonial capital now have genetic connections stretching across the modern United States. Researchers matched DNA recovered from their remains with ...
George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, requested a charter to begin a colony in the New World. The request was approved by King Charles I in 1632. There is no doubt that Calvert would have been pleased at ...
Maryland archaeologist Travis Parno was at a board game convention in Philadelphia, sitting at a table surrounded by thousands of other enthusiasts when he got a text message. He was supposed to be on ...
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND—According to a Washington Post report, archaeologist Travis Parno, archaeological geophysicist Tim Horsley, and their colleagues at Historic St. Mary’s City announced the discovery ...