Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Hawaii, Easter Island and other exotic places. With special ...

Spanish explorers in South America heard about the legend of El Dorado in the 1500s. ... In August 1587, a group of 115 or so English colo­nists landed on Roanoke Island, ...

For more than 400 years, the mystery of how 118 colonists just up and disappeared from Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina has stumped historians and archaeologists. ... They say they have ...

rebel accounts of the roanoke battle.; the defeat, as viewed from norfolk. statement of an eye witness. telegraphic news. general newspaper report. share full article. feb. 16, 1862.

Stock image: Illustration depicts John White (c. 1540 - c1593) and others as they find a tree into which the word "CROATOAN" had been carved on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in 1590.

Colonists Leave Roanoke Island, NC. Author James Horn discussed a theory on why the colonists left Roanoke Island, NC while John White had traveled back to England. Description.

There is no record of people setting foot here until the early 1500s, ... citing two attempts to settle North Carolina’s Roanoke Island and another to colonize Maine.

Roanoke Island almost edged out Jamestown as the site of the first permanent English settlement in North ... Because there’s no evidence that any tribes lived on the island after the 1500s, ...

The lost colonists were the third group of English arrivals on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island, settling near the modern-day town of Manteo. The first group to arrive, in 1584, came to explore ...

Staff at the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island said "Nursey," a 22-year-old nurse shark was nearing his natural lifespan. Nursey joined the aquarium in 2008.

The Greenville resident used $1 to buy a 1,500-square-foot island on the Roanoke Sound, southeast of Roanoke Island and southwest of the Bodie Island Lighthouse, according to information published ...