A team of researchers claimed to have made significant strides in solving one of America’s oldest mysteries — the fate of the ...

The "Lost Colony" is one of history's most intriguing mysteries. How could all these people simply disappear without a trace?

Archaeologists working on North Carolina’s Hatteras Island say new findings may finally explain what happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Based on recent excavations, English settlers who vanished ...

The ‘amateur archaeologist’ says he’s discovered proof of what happened to the colony members who completely vanished from the site of one of the U.S.’s greatest mysteries.

In 1587, a small band of English settlers managed to establish a small colony on Roanoke Island off the eastern coast of North America. This colony was poised to be the first permanent English ...

After the site was found on White’s map, experts began to think the Roanoke settlers left the island and travelled the 100 miles to 31BR246, now known as "Site X".

The map was painted by John White between 1585 and 1586. Picture: British Museum The findings suggest that while Site X didn’t harbour all the Roanoke settlers, a few of them likely decamped there.

The caper concerns a group of some 100 British settlers who landed on Roanoke Island off North Carolina in the 16th century to establish an English foothold in the New World, Popular Mechanics ...

It's a mystery that has intrigued Americans for centuries: What happened to the lost colonists of North Carolina's Roanoke Island? (See "America's Lost Colony.") The settlers, who arrived in 1587 ...

More recently, in an area adjacent to the village, the First Colony team uncovered English pottery similar to that dug up on Roanoke Island and common at Jamestown—but not typical in the second ...