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

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old ...

The first English settlers in North America ate indigenous dogs to survive during an intense period of starvation, archaeologists have discovered. Researchers at the University of Iowa uncovered ...

The English settlers would later kill an Indian leader in a surprise attack that may have doomed the infant colony. Some of the Indians, however, moved to the mainland swamps to the west to join ...

A 16th-century map could offer insights into the enigma surrounding the settlers of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Established in 1587 on the island that now shares its name, near the current North ...

Guest Opinion. The story of tobacco in colonial Virginia represents one of the earliest and most significant cases of ...