For more than 400 years, the mystery of how 118 colonists just up and disappeared from Roanoke Island in what is now North ...

The mystery of "The Lost Colony" of Roanoke has been a centerpiece of North Carolina history and lore for generations, but ...

Archaeologists could have finally solved the 435-year mystery of America's first English settlement, known as the "lost colony" of Roanoke. Tiny flakes of rusted metal, called hammerscales, have ...

The ‘amateur archaeologists’ claims to have discovered proof of what happened to the colony members who completely vanished ...

The plume from Roanoke Island “put us in good hope that ... Three years had passed since the governor had set out from the first English settlement in the New World on what was to be a brief ...

Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great ... arrived on the island in 1587, establishing the first permanent English settlement in America.

Roanoke Island almost edged out Jamestown as the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America — but instead, the 117 men, women and children who came to the island in 1587 ...

John White, the leader of the colony on the north end of Roanoke Island, to leave the settlers ... love story and marriage and the birth of the first English child (Virginia Dare) in the New ...

Follow-up investigations of the site conducted by researchers from the First Colony Foundation ... women and children—established a colony on Roanoke Island. This endeavor was England's second ...

Archaeologists found the earring at Roanoke Island's Elizabethan Gardens. "This is an amazing find, with an intriguing story to tell,” said Eric Klingelhofer, First Colony Foundation’s vice ...