VIRGINIA CITY, Nev. (AP) — Virginia City is a place where people who study our past love to dig holes and uncover artifacts.
More than 150 years after silver boomed on the Comstock, much of the evidence of culture and livelihood left behind by the mining era inhabitants is covered over by the dirt, relentlessly moved around by wind and water. So, while the silver kings explored the mining camp ground from below, today’s excavators dig from the top down.
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