The ‘amateur archaeologist’ says he’s discovered proof of what happened to the colony members who completely vanished from ...

"It's funny that people still pretend that the colonists carved a mysterious word on a tree — 'Croatoan' — and no one knows ...

When officials from Britain arrived to help the colonists, they were surprised to find that there was nobody there, and it ...

For more than 400 years, the mystery of how 118 colonists just up and disappeared from Roanoke Island in what is now North ...

“I don’t want people to come away with the idea ... I ask her about the link to the Roanoke settlers. “We were the Lost Colony,” she responds. “Our surnames, like ‘Berry,’ appear ...

To many people today, these are the most mysterious details from the story of Roanoke’s lost colony. To White, they didn’t seem all that mysterious. He couldn’t sail immediately to Croatoan ...

Despite various theories and ongoing research, several questions about the Lost Colony of Roanoke remain unanswered ... such as the Croatan or Hatteras people, to survive. Archaeological evidence ...

They become known simply as The Lost Colony of Roanoke. “It’s a mystery that may never be ... the ‘social media’ that allowed explorers to share new discoveries with people around the globe. See more ...

but White never saw Virginia grow up because by the time he returned to Roanoke from an extended trip to retrieve supplies, the entire colony had vanished—not just the people, but every structure.

In addition to the Roanoke colonists ... attack in an attempt to wipe out the colony. The Virginia Company claimed the attack killed 347 people, Kupperman wrote, although the actual death toll ...