I urge the city of Roanoke to reconsider discussions of demolishing the historic Caretaker’s House on the grounds of the ...

So that discovery quickly sparked a popular theory that the Roanoke settlers had left the colony for the island. Now, archaeologist Scott Dawson’s decades-long excavation work has potentially ...

Extracting DNA from 16th-century bones on Roanoke Island, Hatteras, or at Site X could provide a reliable link between the settlers and their descendants, but that genetic material remains elusive.

The only trace of the settlers he found was the word "Croatoan" carved into a wooden post - the name of another island just south of Roanoke the home of a Native American tribe. Over the years ...

The tourist said he found the stone about 50 miles inland from Roanoke Island, matching White’s passing mention that the settlers had planned to move “fifty miles into the main.” The Emory ...

In 1587, a group of settlers land off the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke Island to establish the first English colony in America. But only a few years later, the 115 men, women and children ...