The site where Indians once lived in the Bolivar County area has captured the interest of local archaeologists over the past few months.
John Connaway, an archaeologist with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, has been working to uncover the lives of area Indians who lived in Bolivar County more than 1,000 years ago.
"The Delta has one of the richest concentrations of archaeological remains in the country," Connaway said. "The Winterville mounds are the fifth largest mounds in the U.S."
Fla. Company Gets Shipwreck in Ruling
TAMPA, Fla. - A federal judge has given full ownership of a Civil War-era shipwreck to Florida explorers who say the site may yield one of the richest sunken cargoes in history.
Odyssey Marine Exploration of Tampa discovered the wreck of the SS Republic last summer and has already plucked 52,000 gold and silver coins from the site in the Atlantic about 100 miles southeast of Savannah, Ga.
Early estimates put the collectors' value of the coins at $120 million to $180 million. Discovery of more coins is expected to push the amount even higher.
Odyssey, which already held salvage rights, petitioned for title to the wreck after reaching a $1.6 million settlement with a company that had insured the paddlewheel steamer and its cargo and paid claims after it sank in a hurricane in October 1865.
What to make of this? I don't know at the moment. But I'll post something about it later.