The newest revelation about the first permanent English settlers in America may explain some of the disastrous dissension in the first years of Jamestown.
Four newly identified leaders buried in the chancel of Historic Jamestowne’s 1608 church may have included a spy or a secret practitioner of a traitorous religion, archaeologists and historians revealed Tuesday in Washington at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
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PHOTOS: New discovery at Historic Jamestowne
A silver reliquary box was found buried on top of a casket inside a gravesite in the 1608 church on Jamestown Island.
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