Queen Elizabeth II travels to Historic Jamestowne, Virginia, to view the archaeological dig at the James Fort site, and the Voorhees Archaearium museum (archaeological museum). She returns 50 years after having first visited Jamestown Island to walk the grounds of the recently discovered James Fort where the British Empire had its roots 400 years prior. In 1957 she had been told that James Fort, the site of the Jamestown colony's beginning, had washed away into the James River. Starting in 1994 Dr. William Kelso and the Jamestown Rediscovery project crew began to find evidence to the contrary. The archaeologists found that the vast majority of the fort was still on land, and the excavations continue to yield new evidence of the 1607 fort and related buildings, graves, cellars, and wells.