While this may be the "official announcement", the fact that they have  
recovered "500,000" artifacts means they've been at this for a while.  
And when I visited in May they made no secret that they had found the  
foundations, in fact they said they had found the house.

On Jul 2, 2008, at 3:34 PM, geoff carver wrote:

> Now, I'm a little suspicious about the timing of this particular press
> release:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/science/03george.html?hp
>
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