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.

Yet the legend of the Roanoke Colony has endured, a haunting reminder both of the perils of the early colonial days and a giant question mark at the center of America's origin story.

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

The Lingering Mystery Behind the Lost Roanoke Colony Centuries later, scholars still aren't sure how 115 people vanished after arriving in the New World. Recent evidence has only complicated things.

The hunt for the Lost Colony of Roanoke continues in Return to Roanoke: Search for the Seven — in the hope new evidence could change American history.

On Aug. 27, 1587, John White, the governor of Roanoke Island colony, an English settlement in what is now North Carolina, sailed to England in hopes of gathering badly needed supplies and ...

“What’s been discovered is that some part of the Lost Colony, when they left Roanoke Island [in Dare County], came to Bertie County,” Brent Lane, who serves on the Board of Directors of the ...

This season's subtitle, My Roanoke Nightmare, is connected to the lost colony of Roanoke, a 1500s British settlement whose inhabitants disappeared without explanation. What Was Roanoke Colony?

A Spanish colony in South Carolina abandoned their land in 1587 as a result of the drought, leading researchers to believe the Roanoke colony may have done the same.

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