Tag: archaeology
Out Of The Attic: Making archaeology accessible
Alexandria Archaeology, a division of the Office of Historic Alexandria, holds nearly three million artifacts from 250 registered archaeological sites in the public trust...
EYA, Alexandria Archeology win national award
By Missy Schrott | [email protected]
Partners for Livable Communities, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit, presented the City of Alexandria Archaeology and developer EYA, LLC with the...
Unearthing buried treasure on the waterfront
By Alexa Epitropoulos | [email protected]
It’s rare to discover even one ship buried in the ground, but Dan Baicy and his team have now found...
Archaeologists discover third ship at Robinson Landing construction site
By Missy Schrott | [email protected]
The City of Alexandria announced in a press release archaeologists under contract with developer EYA have found the remains of a...
Archaeology Update: Washington’s former townhome featured by C-SPAN
By Missy Schrott | [email protected]
The house George Washington and his family built at 123 S. Pitt St. continues to deliver timeless treasures and draw...
Archaeologists find remains of two historic ships at Robinson Landing site
Archaeologists under contract with Robinson Landing developer EYA have found the remains of two historic ships, the city announced in a news release Monday.
Preliminary...
EYA, city seek uses for historic Pioneer Mills foundation
By Alexa Epitropoulos | [email protected]
Developer EYA and the city have begun the process of relocating the final remaining
foundation stones of Pioneer Mills, the 19th-century...
Construction unearths 20th-century railroad tracks
By Evan Berkowitz | [email protected]
Archaeologists with the Office of Historic Alexandria had hoped that when city developers began work on Windmill Hill Park on the Potomac...
Historic remains found at Robinson Terminal South construction site
By James Cullum | [email protected]
The burial remains of two people and a wooden coffin were discovered last week at Alexandria’s Robinson Terminal South construction project....
Digging history
On Shuters Hill behind the George Washington Masonic temple, about a foot-and-a-half under the grass and topsoil, a time portal sits idle.
