Archaeology

Explore the stories of the Endicott Street brothel and Revere House privies.

Archaeologists have conducted several surveys on Boston Common. These surveys have revealed long-buried stories of its many uses.

This exhibit confronts Boston’s role in slavery and reveals the lives of individual enslaved people: the persistence of their community, their fight for freedom, and how the struggle for freedom continues today.

The c. 1760 Loring-Greenough House is a Landmark-designated property in Jamaica Plain. It was a Native Massachusett site, a site of enslavement, and a Revolutionary Way hospital.

Built in 1858, it has been the headquarters of the League of Women for Community Service, a Black women's civic organization, since 1920.

An outbuilding of the Shirley-Eustis House and possible location where enslaved occupants of the property lived.

Archaeological dig at 6 Hudson Street, former site of Ruby Foo's Den

Archaeologists conducted a dig in the crypt at Old North Church in the North End.

Archaeologists conducted a survey at the landmark-designated Malcolm X- Ella Little Collins House.

The remains of a 19th-century lime schooner were discovered during construction at 121 Seaport Boulevard in May 2016.

The Clough House, owned by the Old North Church Association, is located at 21 Unity Street in Boston's North End.

Archaeologists surveyed the front yard of Old City Hall to find evidence of the 1635 Boston Latin School.

The historic Training Field has been an active participant in Charlestown’s history since the 17th century.

Archaeologists have conducted archaeological digs on Boston Common for decades, unearthing thousands of years of Boston history

Archaeologists have conducted two archaeological surveys at Faneuil Hall in 1991 and 2010 discovering tens of thousands of artifacts from Boston's former shipping hub: Town Dock.

Archaeologists surveyed the yard of the ca. 1680 Paul Revere House and 5 & 6 Lathrop Place, two 1835 row houses on what was once the back of the Revere property.

Archaeologists in the 1990s excavating ahead of the "Big Dig" uncovered the privy of a mid-19th century brothel in the North End.

Brook Farm has been home to Boston history for over 5,000 years, from Native sites to a Utopian transcendentalist community.