When the settlers at Roanoke vanished in 1590, they left behind one piece of evidence: the word "Croatoan" carved into a ...

What was lost is now found. Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great American mystery that has eluded historians for centuries. The caper concerns a ...

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 ...

The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

A 400-year-old map could reveal the secrets of a lost English colony that experts have spent hundreds of years searching for.

Does this mysterious engraved rock prove that 400 English settlers in the 'Lost Colony of Roanoke' were MASSACRED... or is it one of America's biggest hoaxes? North Carolina's First Colony ...

Married to Ananias Dare, Eleanor gave birth to Virginia—the first English child born in the New World—shortly after the English colonists landed on Roanoke ... of the Lost Colony’s ordeal ...

Based on real events, the story of an isolated island colony called Roanoke. When its governor John White leaves for a trip to England he puts his pregnant daughter Eleanor in charge, but his return ...

First Colony Foundation plans to continue probing Site X to glean more insight into the lost Roanoke colony’s fate.

Near the end of the 16th century, more than 100 men, women, and children sailed across the Atlantic to establish the first permanent English colony in America. Three years later, the colony had ...