The tombstone is believed to belong to Sir George Yeardley, a colonial governor of the earliest English settlement and one of America's first slaveholders, who was knighted in 1618.

The tombstone is believed to belong to Sir George Yeardley, a colonial governor of the earliest English settlement and one of America’s first slaveholders, who was knighted in 1618.

The English knight arrived at Jamestown in 1610 after surviving a shipwreck near Bermuda, and was knighted in 1617 when he returned to England by King James I. Sir Yeardley eventually returned to ...

Archeologists have known the tombstone belonged to a knight and was set up in 1627 in Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America.

Archaeologists knew the tombstone belonged to a knight and was set up in 1627 in Jamestown, Virginia, which was the first permanent English settlement across the pond in America.

The tombstone is believed to belong to Sir George Yeardley, a colonial governor of the earliest English settlement and one of America’s first slaveholders, who was knighted in 1618.

Scientists uncovered the origin of the oldest known surviving tombstone in the US, according to a new study. Here’s what it says about early Jamestown, Virginia.

BURIED beneath the oldest known tombstone in the US is an English knight, according to a new study, which nods to surprising trade routes from the time. Archaeologists have long-known that the blac… ...