Roll up your sleeves and get ready to dig in. The Avery Island, Louisiana, building that was the actual birthplace of TABASCO^® in the 1800s was excavated for a second time by a team of archaeologists and historians during the summer of 2001. The first excavation took place in summer 2000. That was when we uncovered the underground ruins and outer walls of the Laboratory where TABASCO^® was originally made way back when. We even found mega-fauna fossils speculated to be over 10,000 years old! The second time around, we uncovered even more history about our beloved hot sauce. Check out our weekly progress reports of the dig, photos from the field, and more, to see what we discovered!