The recent discovery of copious amounts of iron trash on North Carolina's Hatteras Island may reveal the fate of a ...

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, ...

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

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 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 ...

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 lost colonists of Roanoke left behind a clue about their fate, the word 'Croatoan' carved into a tree. Who were the Croatans? What were their lives like? How can we see this whole story ...

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 ...