Sally Hemmings dwelling just came to light last week underneath Monticello, iirc.
What is believed to have been her chamber, behind a staircase, iirc.
The world is very messy, and it can be hard to find things if you aren’t looking for them. I was listening to a recording about South American archaeology just a few minutes ago (driving home from Walmart), and the lecturer said he had been mapping the Maya city of Palenque when a farmer came up and asked, “Would you like to see the largest building in Palenque?”
“Sure,” Dr. Barnhart said, and the farmer led him a few hundred yards into the jungle and pointed to a hill. “There it is,” he said, and sure enough it was, unnoticed by archaeologists working in Palenque for a century.
So 3,200 years of conquests, war, migrating populations mean nothing? This is not to mention the destruction of many things in Egypt by the early Christians and later by Mohammad and his Disciples.
Sally Hemmings was just an hour ago on this time scale ...