. >> i'm george schwartz. the site was originally discovered in 1979, and it was -- it was excavated in the early 1980s by another group. and they recovered a large number of artifacts. basically what they did is they discovered the site, they mapped it and they recovered about 180 artifacts, and they were found to be in very good state of preservation. but they were con served and put on display, and examined in maryland to commemorate barney's test fleet flotilla. what we have here, a collection of artifacts recovered in 2010 and 2011. right now, all in storage solutions, because essentially what we need to do is keep the artifacts wet. if they dry out in an uncontrolled manner, they can deteriorate and essentially fall apart. we have organic materials, metal materials, sometimes a combination of both. ceramics and glass. each one is in its own particular solution so that it's well preserved until treatment can take place. treatment can take anywhere from a couple weeks to a couple years, depending on the ar

historian very schwartz describes our first president george washington's religious beliefs writing george washington's practice of christianity was limited in superficial because he was not himself great yet he repeatedly declined the church's sacraments never to take communion and when his wife martha did he waited for her outside the sanctuary even on his deathbed washington asked for no ritual no prayer to christ and expressed no wish to be attended by his church's representative and his thomas jefferson wrote eight hundred fourteen long after the constitution was ratified christianity never is nor ever was a part of a common law. in seven hundred ninety six our nation signed a peace treaty with tripoli what we now call libya and in this treaty negotiated by the george washington administration and signed by president john adams our founding fathers made very clear the religious nature of the united states when they wrote the government of the united states of america is not in any sense founded on the christian religion unfortunately more than two hundred years after the treaty of tri