For example, the late-19th-century North Carolina politician Hamilton McMillan used the rumor of the Roanoke settlers’ white lineage blended into the local Lumbee tribe as a pretext to offer the ...

Roughly 115 colonists landed at Roanoke, and those who vanished included White's daughter and son-in-law as well as his granddaughter, Virginia Dare, who was the first English colonist born in North ...

Does the discovery of ceramics help answer the unsolved riddle of why a group of colonial settlers disappeared in North Carolina in the late 16th century?

In "The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession and The Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke," Andrew Lawler ironically makes a decent case against getting too curious about the first English settlement in ...

While these were the first lasting settlements, the earliest English settlement was Roanoke Island, whose settlers disappeared shortly after its founding in 1587.

A gold ring now believed to be made of brass leaves a long-standing theory about the “lost colony” up in the air.

Archaeologists could have finally solved the 435-year mystery of America's first English settlement, known as the "lost ...

Archaeologists have uncovered two large piles of iron flakes on North Carolina's Hatteras Island that they say are evidence of a 16th-century "Lost Colony" of English settlers who disappeared in 1587.

Secret in 400-year-old map may have finally solved the mystery of Roanoke Researchers believe they might have finally cracked the case of a creepy unsolved mystery that has baffled historians for ...

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 ...