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Article: ARCHAEOLOGISTS INVESTIGATE MARK TWAIN'S VIRGINIA CITY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 17, 2008
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The Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs issued the following news release:
A team of archaeologists is beginning excavations that they hope will shed light on life in Virginia City during the time when Mark Twain called the place home. A summer field school from the Anthropology Department of the University of Nevada, Reno is currently excavating in an area known as the Barbary Coast, a place of vice and crime during the 1860s and 1870s.
The archaeologists' plan is to excavate parts of the Barbary Coast area and then move to other area locations during the five week project, which is implemented in coordination with Extended Studies at the University.
"We are looking for artifacts that ...