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For centuries, the disappearance of 117 colonists from Roanoke Island has been this country's oldest mystery. Now, stonework experts Jim and Bill Vieira will use cutting-edge technology to...
The Roanoke Colony (/ ˈ r oʊ ə n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared.
An archaeological dig has turned up possible artifacts from the lost Roanoke colony in Bertie County, suggesting some survivors moved inland. The fate of Roanoke's 115 settlers has been a mystery ...
The lost colony of Roanoke is one of the most-notorious mysteries in American history; the cryptic clues left at the abandoned settlement and the lack of any concrete evidence make it the focus of wild speculation and theories.
The results of two archaeological studies announced this year provide growing evidence that’s what the British settlers who arrived on North Carolina’s shores in 1587 did. The colony’s disappearance became America’s oldest unsolved mystery.
Since the settlers disappeared in 1590, the mystery of what happened to Roanoke has been unsolved. An archeological dig may have finally found answers. This study is the first time physical evidence has been found to support the theory that the settlers moved on to Hatteras Island.
Ongoing excavations at two sites in North Carolina have yielded new clues about what may have happened to the English settlers who vanished from Roanoke Island around 1590.
After the failure of the Roanoke Colony and the disappearance of its settlers, John White all but disappeared from the historical record. He died, possibly in Ireland, around 1606, one year before England, having learned from the failures at Roanoke, established the first successful English colony at Jamestown , Virginia.
Ongoing excavations by archaeologists from The First Colony Foundation have revealed new findings on the historical narrative of the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke. The Roanoke Colony refers to two colonisation attempts in North America by Sir Walter Raleigh during the 16th century.
White finally returned to Roanoke in 1590, nearly three years after they landed, and was confronted with an abandoned colony, with no indication of what happened there that resulted in the...