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

When the settlers at Roanoke vanished in 1590, they left behind one piece of evidence: the word "Croatoan" carved into a ...

Roanoke Tribune reflects on 86 years of print journalism ...

The caper concerns a group of some 100 British settlers who landed on Roanoke Island off North Carolina in the 16th century to establish an English foothold in the New World, Popular Mechanics ...

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 ...

A concerning amount of Long Island public schools were identified by New York officials for underwhelming academic ...

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, ...

Scientists have detected several thousand earthquakes, the vast majority of them with small magnitudes, in just over two ...