In 1587, around 100 colonists newly arrived from England established themselves on Roanoke Island, in present-day North ...

The recent discovery of copious amounts of iron trash on North Carolina's Hatteras Island may reveal the fate of a ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered evidence pointing toward the fate of the Roanoke Colony, whose residents disappeared between 1587 and 1590 in North Carolina.

A new study suggests the Lost Colony of Roanoke assimilated with Native Americans, backed by iron flakes found on Hatteras ...

CROATOAN. The word was found written on a fencepost in the lost colony of Roanoke, and it still intrigues us after 425 years. But this 16th century settlement is more than a legend. It’s also ...

1590: Captain White returns to Roanoke to find the colony gone. 1602: Raleigh makes another attempt to locate the colony. 1940s: Professional archaeology begins at Roanoke. 2012: Experts identify ...

The plume from Roanoke Island “put us in good hope that some of the colony were there expecting my return out of England,” he wrote later. Three years had passed since the governor had set out ...

It is one of America's oldest unsolved mysterious, but a hobby archaeologist believes to have uncovered the truth behind the Lost Colony of Roanoke. In 1587 a group of English settlers arrived on ...

The basic beats of the story behind the Lost Colony of Roanoke go something like this: In the late 16th century, a group of English colonists settled on an island off the coast of modern-day North ...