This summer, scouting a Roanoke Island shoreline for the National Park Service, Deetz dug up eight blue-and-white shards of a tin-glazed pottery jar or vial, of a type manufactured for only a few ...

Lost Colony of Roanoke: Map’s hidden clue could solve 400-year-old mystery. WHAT happened to a group of colonists who disappeared without a trace?

Appointed governor of the fledgling Roanoke colony by Sir Walter Raleigh, White was returning from England with desperately needed supplies. NG MAPS. But when he stepped ashore on August 18, ...

Whatever happened to the lost colonists of Roanoke, Virginia? The answer to one of America’s longest and most puzzling questions is now in a new book. In “The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island ...

A new look at a 425-year-old map has yielded a tantalizing clue about the fate of the Lost Colony, the settlers who disappeared from North Carolina's Roanoke Island in the late 16th century.

Here are 13 facts about the origins and demise of Roanoke Island’s hapless colony—and several theories about where its inhabitants may have ended up. 1. Sir Walter Raleigh kickstarted the ...

White finally returned to Roanoke in 1590, nearly three years after they landed, and was confronted with an abandoned colony, with no indication of what happened there that resulted in the ...

Fast forward 400-odd years and the legend of the Roanoke colony is still an epic question mark in American history. But leave it to Ryan Murphy’s hit television series starring Sarah Paulson, ...