Church of England allows Jamestown exhumation

The Church of England has given archaeologists permission to dig under a church and remove DNA from a 400-year-old body to determine if America’s Jamestown settlement’s founder was buried under the 17th-century fort.

The Church said archaeologists could dig under the floor of All Saints Church in Shelley, Suffolk, to reach the skeleton of Elizabeth Tilney, the sister of Bartholomew Gosnold, a leader of the English expedition that founded Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.