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

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

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 group of some 100 British ...

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 ...

In 1587, a group of English settlers established the Roanoke Colony on an island between what is now North Carolina and the Outer Banks. However, by 1590, the traces of the colony had disappeared, and ...

The plume from Roanoke Island “put us in good hope that some of the colony were there expecting my return out of England,” he wrote later. Three years had passed since the governor had set out ...

Picture: Stock Montage/Getty Images White subsequently returned ... probing Site X to glean more insight into the lost Roanoke colony’s fate.