The island of Gorée lies off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar. From the 15th to the 19th century, it was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast. Ruled in succession by the ...

A new study suggests the Lost Colony of Roanoke assimilated with Native Americans, backed by iron flakes found on Hatteras ...

The recent discovery of copious amounts of iron trash on North Carolina's Hatteras Island may reveal the fate of a ...

As the tragic legend goes, British colonists who were settled on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island in 1587 disappeared at some ...

The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the first permanent English settlement in the United States.

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European investigators began to uncover portions of the city by the 19th century, but the most spec ... colonists retreated after abandoning Roanoke Island. In August 1587, a group of 115 or ...

“We lost a lot of them at intermission,” said Chuck Still, the executive director of the Roanoke Island Historical Association (RIHA), who was operating a golf cart to bring folks back and ...

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Though this community in the Outer Banks is charming on the surface, it hides one the oldest, and most intriguing, mysteries from American history ...