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Article: Excavations may shed light on Mark Twain's Virginia City.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- July 27, 2009
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Byline: ANI
Washington, July 27 (ANI): A team of archaeologists is currently continuing excavations that they hope will shed light on life in Virginia City during the time when Mark Twain lived there.
According to a report in Nevada Appeal, a summer field school operated by the Anthropology Department of the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) has begun excavating the original site of Thomas Maguire's Opera House on D Street.
A second excavation is also under way in an area known as the Barbary Coast, a place of vice and crime during the 1860s and 1870s.
Both sites were tested last summer, and results indicated there were sufficient ...