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

Clues hiding in the details of a 400-year-old map could solve the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke, which scholars have spent hundreds of years searching for.

This season’s subtitle, My Roanoke Nightmare, is connected to the lost colony of Roanoke, a 1500s British settlement whose inhabitants disappeared without explanation. More than 400 years after ...

The lost colony of Roanoke Island will always be one of the weirdest episodes in American history. It has managed to stay in the news, off and on, for 431 years: the case of 100-plus English ...

Horton studies the Lost Colony, a group of about 120 English settlers who arrived on Roanoke Island in North Carolina's Outer Banks in 1587. The colonists struggled to survive and sent their ...

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 ...

Lifestyle Mystery of lost colony of Roanoke solved? Amateur archaeologist makes the case By Paula Froelich Published Aug. 29, 2020, 6:46 p.m. ET ...

A map showing the location of the Roanoke Colony, drawn by John White in 1585 The hunt for the Lost Colony of Roanoke continues tonight in TV special Return to Roanoke: Search for the Seven — in ...

The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the first permanent English settlement in the United States. A group of over 100 colonists settled on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island in ...

As Lawler explained, there was a specific reason why Americans in the 19th century were so attracted to the story of the Roanoke Colony — namely, that it played into prevalent ideas about race.

It’s a mystery in which all Americans have a stake. _____ “ The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke ” by Andrew Lawler, Doubleday, 426 pp., $29.95 ...