Both Colonial Williamsburg & the college’s archaeological teams discovered new finds related to the original Bray School.

The excavation of the Williamsburg Bray School has yielded hundreds of artifacts, providing a glimpse into the lives of Black ...

The Williamsburg Bray School, now part of Colonial Williamsburg, taught free and enslaved Black children for several years in ...

Archaeologists in Virginia have unearthed the foundation of a building from the 1700s that once supported the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children ...

The Williamsburg Bray School is one of the oldest schools in the United States to educate Black students. Archeologists ...

Tolstoy informs us: without ethics, there is no greatness. A lesson that art, through its allegories of war and peace, has ...

There are also items that appear to be more recent, such as a shard of glass depicting Minerva, Roman goddess of wisdom, justice, war and the arts.

According to the release, one of the team’s favorite discoveries was part of a broken glass depicting the Roman goddess of wisdom, Minerva.

The Bray School opened in 1760 and was North America’s first institution to educate both enslaved and free Black children. However, the Bray School’s underlying goals offer a stark example of the ...

There are also items that appear to be more recent, such as a shard of glass depicting Minerva, Roman goddess of wisdom, justice, war and the arts. From 1924 to 1930, the building housed Methodist ...