We Finally Have Clues to How the Lost Roanoke Colony Vanished Artifacts suggest some members of ill-fated English settlement survived and assimilated with Native Americans.

Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that men wearing European clothes were living on the Carolina mainland west of Roanoke and Croatoan Islands.

Nicknamed "The Lost Colony," members of the group that settled Roanoke Island in North Carolina in the late 16th-century disappeared during the Anglo-Spanish War. The only clue the colony left ...

Scott Dawson, the aforementioned author, museum proprietor, and president of the Croatoan Archaeological Society, did not find the buildings or the bodies that once populated the colony at Roanoke.

Dawson and Horton have been digging near the former Roanoke and Croatoan settlements for more than a decade, during which they uncovered numerous weapons and European artifacts on Hatteras Island.

CROATOAN. The word was found written on a fencepost in the lost colony of Roanoke, and it still intrigues us after 425 years. But this 16th century ...

The recent discovery of copious amounts of iron trash on North Carolina's Hatteras Island may reveal the fate of a 16th-century "Lost Colony." ...

When John White returned to the Roanoke colony with supplies from England, he found that all the people had disappeared — and the word "CROATOAN" had been carved nearby. (Image credit: Stock ...

“The Indians of Roanoke, Croatoan, Secotan and other villages had no reason to make enemies of the colonists. Instead, they probably made them kin,” she argued.

Roanoke’s ‘Lost Colony’ Was Never Lost, New Book Says A new book aims to settle a centuries-old question of what happened to a group of English colonists.

What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke? Corporate greed, dreadful diplomacy, and the wrath of Mother Nature. Also, we don’t know.