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 ...

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

The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the first permanent English settlement in the United States.

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 ...

A team of researchers believes they may have cracked one of America's most enduring legends: Where did the settlers of the Roanoke Colony go? The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony ...

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 ...

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 Indians of Roanoke, Croatoan ... Dr. Maynor Lowery, who is Lumbee, added that the “lost colony” story is itself based on the incorrect premise “that Native people also disappeared ...

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 letters "C-R-O" has also been carved into the wood of a tree. Of course, the failure of the Roanoke Colony did not put an end to the British imperial project in North America, not by a long shot.