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 ...

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

In 1587, approximately 115 men, women, and children landed at Roanoke Island to make this colonial dream a reality. Since Raleigh didn’t oversee operations on the island himself, PBS North Carolina ...

The mystery of what happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke has puzzled historians for centuries. English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh founded the colony in modern-day North Carolina in 1587, but 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 ...

On his return three years later, he found the colony of Roanoke completely abandoned. Queen Elizabeth I wished to establish a colony on the eastern coast of North America for several reasons. Firstly, ...

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 ...

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 ...