Port Royal is one of the premier English archaeological sites of the Americas. Founded soon after the conquest of the island of Jamaica from the Spanish by an English invasion force in 1655, it went through a spectacular rise involving rich merchants, notorious pirates/privateers, and affluent planters.
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Some human remains were uncovered from under the bricks of one of the fallen buildings, exemplifying the destruction of the 1962 earthquake, and the remains of ...
Once known as the 'Wickedest City on Earth,' Port Royal on the island of Jamaica was one of the largest towns in the English colonies during the late 17th ...
May 21, 2001 · The Port Royal Project concentrated for 10 years on the submerged 17th-century remains on Lime Street, near its intersection with Queen and High ...
The sunken city of Port Royal has been the subject of research since the mid-1900s if not earlier. The most extensive body of work was done in 1981 over a ...
Port Royal is the only authentic sunken city in the Western Hemisphere. Combined with its wealth of archives and documentary material, the value attributed to ...
... archaeology, our University of Michigan-based team recently returned from an archaeological field expedition to the underwater city of Port Royal, Jamaica.
It is in the 1980s that serious archaeological work began in Port Royal championed by TAMU/INA, notably dedicating a decade to its archaeological study. Several ...
Port Royal, Jamaica: The archaeological problems and ...
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The Project is concerned with the excavation, conservation and presentation of 17th century Port Royal, which was founded in 1655 and destroyed by an earthquake ...
Pirates from around the world congregated at Port Royal, coming from waters as far away as Madagascar. The town became notorious in folklore as 'the wickedest ...