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A group of over 100 colonists settled on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island in 1587, led by Sir Walter Raleigh. John White, the governor of the colony, returned to England for supplies in 1587.

The historical record is chilling. Early Jamestown colony leader George Percy wrote of a “world of miseries,” that included digging corpses from their graves to eat when there was nothing else.

The latter issue forced Gov. John White, the leader of the colony on the north end of Roanoke Island, to leave the settlers for England to secure the needed items.

The Lost Colony of Roanoke is one of the United States’ most enduring mysteries. An amateur archaeologists claims to have discovered proof of what happened to the colony members who completely ...

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Mark Horton, a British archaeologist digging for remnants of the failed 1587 Roanoke colony on the North Carolina coast, hails it as “a truly significant discovery” that will “greatly help ...

Yet, fate had other plans. Sometime between the colony’s founding in 1587 and the return of its leader, John White, in 1590, the settlement on Roanoke Island disappeared without a trace.

So the people in the Roanoke Island settlement in what’s now North Carolina became famous as the Lost Colony, an enduring mystery that inspired the first and longest running outdoor symphonic ...

That storm pushed huge amounts of sand onto Roanoke Island, nestled between the Outer Banks barrier islands and the mainland. Scientists believe that sand covered the original topsoil, so whatever ...