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 ...

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, ...

Placed against the backdrop of these significant achievements, the Roanoke colony was a failure. Indeed, by any measure, it was a failure. It was first established in 1585, as the government of ...

The tiny hammerscales are a byproduct of metal forging, and the archaeologists who dug them up say they show what befell the famed 'lost colony' of Roanoke in the late 1500s. For 435 years ...

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 ...