Centuries-Old Discovery Unearthed at George Washington’s Home

Archaeologists working on a project to rehabilitate the foundation of George Washington's Mount Vernon, VA home made a stunning discovery when they unearthed two intact bottles of cherries from the hardened dirt of the mansion's basement.

Although the discovery of the first bottle was made last November, an excavation team only got to work removing the bottle on March 22, at which point a second bottle was found. Nick Beard, the project's lead archaeologist, told the Washington Post that...