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

The lost colony of Roanoke, established in the late 1500s off the east coast of what would become the U.S., vanished ...

New research by Mark Horton and Scott Dawson suggests Roanoke Colony settlers assimilated with Native Americans, supported by archaeological evidence of English iron-working on Hatteras Island.

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

In her book Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony, Karen Ordahl Kupperman suggests that perhaps the resources in the Azores wouldn’t meet Roanoke’s needs, or that White’s crew was anxious to be back ...

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 ...

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 ...

Roanoke’s ‘Lost Colony’ Was Never Lost, New Book Says. A new book aims to settle a centuries-old question of what happened to a group of English colonists.

The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the first permanent English settlement in the United States. A group of over 100 colonists settled on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island in ...

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 ...

A new look at a 425-year-old map has yielded a tantalizing clue about the fate of the Lost Colony, the settlers who disappeared from North Carolina's Roanoke Island in the late 16th century.

What was lost is now found. Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great American mystery that has eluded historians for centuries. The caper ...