News & Events
Recent News Coverage on Fox 8:
https://www.fox8live.com/2021/02/05/new-orleans-undergroundthe-city-beneath-city/
Information and news links about LSU New Orleans's excavations at the 810 Royal Street site in the French Quarter of New Orleans can be found at theartofdigging.com and as featured on WGNO's News With a Twist.
Glimpses of History in Storyville (article from The Advocate).
Tark Musa spends almost every day behind the cash register at the New Image Market, at Bienville and Crozat streets. Mostly, he sees the same people: construction workers who drop in to buy cigarettes and plate lunches, children who grab nickel candy from jars in the front, housekeepers picking up bottles of juice and jelly doughnuts in small paper bags on their way to work.
Recent excavations by Dr. Ryan Gray at the St. Peter Street Cemetery
New Orleans is known by some as America's most haunted city, but what was found in the city's oldest neighborhood isn't folklore or legend.
Reburial for human remains recovered from St. Peter Street Cemetery completed! See video and stories from nola.com and the Advocate.
New issue of Louisiana Archaeology on the archaeology of New Orleans, coedited by Dr. Gray and Dennis Jones, including article by former LSU New Orleans student Blair Bordelon, available to order here!
New Orleans archaeology (including work at 810 Royal) featured on Episode 5 of the podcast The Storied House, available for streaming here.
Interview with Dr. Gray on Bernice Bennett's 'Research at the National Archives and Beyond' radio show available for streaming here.