The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

When the settlers at Roanoke vanished in 1590, they left behind one piece of evidence: the word "Croatoan" carved into a ...

Photograph by Stuart Conway WITH PERMISSION OF TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM Croatoan was the name of both a barrier island to the south and the indigenous people who lived there, Carolina ...

On the urging of a cave diver she knew, Ange Mlinko read Friday (1967), the revisionist Robinson Crusoe tale by Michel ...

One of the greatest mysteries in American history is the Lost Colony of Roanoke, a small settlement of more than […] ...

An illustration depicting John White and others finding a tree carved with the words “Croatoan” on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in 1590. Getty Images Their whereabouts baffled historians ...

A 400-year-old map could reveal the secrets of a lost English colony that experts have spent hundreds of years searching for.

Clues hiding in the details of a 400-year-old map could solve the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke, which scholars have ...