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

Human history is full of mysteries, from the Ark of the Covenant to the story of Atlantis. But some, like the lost colony of ...

This is really a solid lead.” Archaeologists from the First Colony Foundation, a North Carolina nonprofit devoted to Roanoke-related archaeology, set out to investigate the area indicated on 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 ...

The Lost Colony of Roanoke is one of the United States ... the focus was on Virginia Dare, the first English (or as she was more often touted then, first “white”) child born in the New ...

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

The first English attempt at living on Roanoke ... ship they’d raided en route to Roanoke. 12. Clues to the Roanoke colony’s possible fate emerged from witnesses in another English colony.

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 ...

Archaeologists found the earring at Roanoke Island's Elizabethan Gardens. "This is an amazing find, with an intriguing story to tell,” said Eric Klingelhofer, First Colony Foundation’s vice ...