Scientists say remains of four men exhumed from what was once an Anglican church suggest they were well-nourished, "high-status" leaders in the early 17th century colony. And one was likely Catholic.

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.

Archeologists believe they have finally uncovered the origins of what is believed to be the oldest gravestone in the US, which belonged to English knight, Sir George Yeardley, who died nearly 400 ...

An ancient DNA (aDNA) study at the 17th-century English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, has identified two of the town's earliest settlers, and revealed an unexpected family secret.

Jamestown races to protect colony from climate change 02:36. That line in the sand starts with shoring up the 1904 seawall along the river bank with 96,000 tons of granite to help deflect the ...

Wenman and West were known to be kinsmen of Thomas West, the third Lord Baron De La Warr, who arrived in 1610 as the Jamestown Colony’s initial governor.

The oldest surviving tombstone in the United States—a black limestone slab from 1627 that once bore the insignia of an English knight—was rediscovered at the site of Virginia’s Jamestown ...

(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 ...

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.

An ancient DNA (aDNA) study at the 17th-century English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, has identified two of the town's earliest settlers, and revealed an unexpected family secret.