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A new look at a 425-year-old map has yielded a tantalizing clue about the fate of the Lost Colony, the settlers who disappeared from North Carolina's Roanoke Island in the late 16th century.
A new look at a 425-year-old map has yielded a tantalizing clue about the fate of the Lost Colony, the settlers who disappeared from North Carolina's Roanoke Island in the late 16th century.
Whatever happened to the lost colonists of Roanoke, Virginia? The answer to one of America’s longest and most puzzling questions is now in a new book. In “The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island ...
Every American school kid learns the story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. But could its fate have been hiding in plain sight all along, behind some patches on a map? It’s a major clue that could ...
This summer, scouting a Roanoke Island shoreline for the National Park Service, Deetz dug up eight blue-and-white shards of a tin-glazed pottery jar or vial, of a type manufactured for only a few ...
Yet the legend of the Roanoke Colony has endured, a haunting reminder both of the perils of the early colonial days and a giant question mark at the center of America's origin story.
Hidden details in a historic map have helped shed light on one of the great mysteries in American history. The 16th-century map provides insights into the fate of the settlers who formed the so-called ...
English colonists arriving on Roanoke Island in 1587 find the fort built years before deserted. Soon after members of the colony begin to die in horrible ways. Leader Before returning to England ...
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.
For 85 years, the story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island has taken the stage in front of thousands of people.
The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the first permanent English settlement in the United States.