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

As the tragic legend goes, British colonists who were settled on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island in 1587 disappeared at some ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered evidence pointing toward the fate of the Roanoke Colony, whose residents disappeared ...

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

The mystery of "The Lost Colony" of Roanoke has been a centerpiece of North Carolina history and lore for generations, but was the colony actually lost? A Hatteras Island resident working with a ...

Appointed governor of the fledgling Roanoke colony by Sir Walter Raleigh, White was returning from England with desperately needed supplies. But when he stepped ashore on August 18, 1590 ...

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 ...

White finally returned to Roanoke in 1590, nearly three years after they landed, and was confronted with an abandoned colony, with no indication of what happened there that resulted in the ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Has the Lost Colony of settlers been found? In 1585, explorer John White traveled to Roanoke Island, and made a map and other drawings of the island. In 1587, a colony of 116 ...

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 ...

The Lost Colony of Roanoke is one of the United States’ most enduring mysteries. An amateur archaeologists claims to have discovered proof of what happened to the colony members who completely ...