Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • ARCHAEOLOGY

    FAIRFIELD’S REBIRTH IN 3-D

    Feb 14, 2019 2 minutes
    —MATT SABO

    t the time it was completed in 1694, southeastern Virginia’s Fairfield Plantation was one of the largest and most architecturally innovative houses in the American colonies. Its distinctive features, including triple diamond-stack chimneys, hipped roof, and large, rectangular sash windows, made Fairfield “the most sophisticated classical house built in British North America to that date,” according to historian Cary Carson of the

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from ARCHAEOLOGY

    ARCHAEOLOGY1 min readPolitical Ideologies
    Pompeian Politics
    Many of the buildings along Pompeii’s streets are covered with painted messages extolling the virtues of candidates running for office nearly 2,000 years ago. “These graffiti played a similar role to our electoral posters, to get consensus and suppor
    ARCHAEOLOGY1 min read
    Speaking In Golden Tongues
    In the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus, just west of the Nile, a team led by archaeologists Esther Pons of Spain’s National Archaeological Museum and Maite Mascort of the University of Barcelona unearthed an underground tomb. It dates to between 332 and
    ARCHAEOLOGY1 min read
    Hunting Heads
    Villagers living in northeastern China around 4,000 years ago appear to have been the target of a catastrophic headhunting raid. At a site known as Honghe, archaeologists from the Heilongjiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology h

    Related Books & Audiobooks