is not in the sands of egypt or something, but it is just as important and as the significant as egyptology, the work going on over there. this is maybe even more important, because the documents are so sketchy for us. we have lost a lot of the documents on the virginia company during the great fire in london in the late 17th century. there are a lot of documents lost during our civil war. so, what we have left is and complete, and now, with the archaeology, we have a whole new record, a whole new set, data set, and the artifacts can tell us just as much as a letter from the past if we learn how to read the artifacts. that is my job as curator, reading the artifacts. we are now standing in a room that we call the vault. that is because it was specially built to house our collection. and we have made some special precautions for the materials, the floor level is of above the floodplain. we have reinforced concrete walls, cinderblock walls. we have special storm shutters that come down over the windows. we get really bad storms out here, nor'easters and hurricanes. and we have bulletproof gla