And learn about the history of philadelphia from the 18th century up to the 1840s. Im Scott Stevenson, vice at the museum of the American Revolution in philadelphia. I was the principal archaeologist of excavation of the site for the building itself. Scott we are actually standing surface feet below land if you are walking down Chestnut Street to Independence Hall toward the Delaware River and come to the corner of third and Chestnut Streets, we are about 20 or 30 feet underground right now. This is the site where the excavations were done for the new museum. Rebecca and i spent plenty of time in the dirt on this very same site, so its fascinating existsthis building that that we were out there with our shovels and trials and screens and the whole shebang. That is what archaeology is. Some shovels and trowels scott this is the earliest engraved map that shows the town for out by william penn philadelphia, the capital of pennsylvania, and this little is actually the footprint of the bui