Archaeology

Lost Artifacts of Morgantina

Frank Stasio and Shawn Wen — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:17:00 +0000

In 2010, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art had to return 16 silver cups and bowls to a little town in Sicily called Morgantina.

UNC Stumbles on Buried 19th Century Building

Will Michaels — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:30:00 +0000

Archaeologists at UNC-Chapel Hill say they've uncovered a structure on campus that is an underground cellar from the early 1800s. Construction crews ran into the buried structure last month while building a new drainage pipe underneath McCorkle Place.

Massive Cannon from Blackbeard's Ship to Emerge

WUNC News — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:59:00 +0000

At the bottom of Beaufort Inlet sits an eight-foot cannon that once fired from the decks of the Queen Anne’s Revenge. It’s been there since the ship sank in 1718, and the famous pirate Blackbeard was captured. A crew of archaeologists heads out to bring the cannon to the surface today. Mark Wilde-Ramsing is the director of the Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck project and an underwater archaeologist with the state. He joined WUNC's Eric Hodge to talk about the project.