The location happened to be a dig site called 31BR246, where, in 2007, researchers excavated a specific type of English pottery that was “limited to the earliest settlement sites in Virginia ...

The English settlers would later kill an Indian leader ... By the late 19th century, a popular myth imagined Virginia Dare as a beautiful blond-haired and blue-eyed virgin in a wilderness filled ...

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 ...

When the first English settlers arrived ... The study has enhanced our understanding of 17th-century settlement in Virginia, providing a rare glimpse of early plantation life on land that would become ...

The Virginia Comapny of London In 1607, 105 colonists landed in Jamestown, and by 1609, 500 settlers had come. However, English ambition was at first dashed by ignorance and an unforgiving land.

The Virginia Company of London was desperate to populate its struggling colony in America. Twelve years earlier, in 1607, three ships carrying about 100 English colonists -- most of them men ...

He determined that these fragments were Border ware, a specific type of English pottery that had been 'limited to the earliest settlement sites in Virginia, possibly dating back to the sixteenth ...

The first English settlers in Virginia found this out the hard way. When the Virginia Company, under the leadership of John Smith, founded the first permanent English settlement in the New World ...

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analysed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John White, ...