White drew the Virginea Pars map - which was critical to Sir Walter Raleigh's quest to attract investors in his second colony - and other drawings when he traveled to Roanoke Island in 1585 on an ...

Embark on a comprehensive journey through North Carolina's rich history, from its earliest known human settlements around ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – 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 ...

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.

Perhaps the best clue in more than 420 years to North Carolina’s most famous mystery has just been revealed. The remains of the Lost Colony, it turns out, could sit under an Arnold Palmer ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Perhaps the best clue in more than 420 years to North Carolina’s most famous mystery has been revealed. The remains of the Lost Colony, the settlers who disappeared from ...

The story of the Lost Colony is ingrained in the folklore of North Carolina. A play on the Outer Banks that was first staged in 1937 is the longest-running drama in the nation.

Perhaps the best clue in more than 420 years to North Carolina’s most famous mystery has just been revealed.The remains of the Lost Colony, it turns out, could sit under an Arnold Palmer ...

Even before the Lost Colony, great waves of emigration and migration were reshaping the region now known as North Carolina. ... This 1775 map was drawn soon after the Tuscarora War.

MANTEO, N.C. — Archaeologists say an unearthed copper earring likely came from European explorers who made up part of the "Lost Colony" in modern-day Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

"Lost Colony" settlers disappeared from Roanoke Island in the late 16th century after English explorer Walter Raleigh sent three groups to the coast of North Carolina in 1584, 1585 and 1587.