When the settlers at Roanoke vanished in 1590, they left behind one piece of evidence: the word "Croatoan" carved into a ...

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 concerns a ...

The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

A 16th-century map could offer insights into the enigma surrounding the settlers of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Established in 1587 on the island that now shares its name, near the current North ...

This is really a solid lead.” Archaeologists from the First Colony Foundation, a North Carolina nonprofit devoted to Roanoke-related archaeology, set out to investigate the area indicated on the ...

A 400-year-old map could reveal the secrets of a lost English colony that experts have spent hundreds of years searching for.

The man explained that he was a tourist who had found the 21-pound stone near the North Carolina–Virginia border ... the English colonists landed on Roanoke Island. Did Governor John White ...

The legend of the Lost Colony of Roanoke has haunted American history for centuries. In July 1587, a British colonist named John White accompanied 117 people to settle a small island sheltered within ...

If you want to see what animals you're sharing the water with when you're splashing around on the Outer Banks beaches, head to Roanoke to the North Carolina Aquarium. Its main feature is the ...

North Carolina’s First Colony Foundation scanned ... to continue probing Site X to glean more insight into the lost Roanoke colony’s fate.