Archeologists have uncovered the remains of four of the earliest leaders of the English colony that would become America.
They were buried for more than 400 years near the altar of what was America's first Protestant church in Jamestown, Virginia.
The team identified the remains of the four men, which included Rev. Robert Hunt, of whom CBN Founder Pat Robertson is a direct descendant. Hunt is the first Anglican minister of Jamestown.
"We did find skeletal remains within four burials. We could tell right away in two of them," Dr. William Kelso, director of Archaeology at the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation, said.
"The head of the person was buried toward the east, on the east end of the burial, and that's traditionally reserved for clergymen," he explained.
Historian James Horn is president of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation.
"What we have discovered here in the earliest English church in America are four of the first leaders of America," he said. "There's nothing like it anywhere else in this country."
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