Unearthing St. Augustine: America’s oldest city
Ask many Americans what they know about early colonial America, and Disney’s “Pocahontas” will probably enter the conversation. Although the…
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Researchers unearth only stone mission church in St. Augustine
University of Florida archaeologists uncovered the remains of a more than 300-year-old building Friday in St. Augustine that may predate…
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Early Columbus settlement was desperate to find metals
A new study provides evidence that the last inhabitants of Christopher Columbus’ first settlement desperately tried to extract silver from…
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Old Spanish mission found near Gainesville
Rewind 300 years and imagine you are a Spanish colonist in Florida fleeing for your life to the protection of…
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Archaeologists uncover little-known chapter in US history
Few people today are aware that a century and a half before there was a San Francisco in California, a…
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