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BUXTON, N.C. (WAVY) — Many in our region have heard about the Lost Colony, either through books or the well-known play. It speaks of the first English colony to settle on Roanoke Island. A small group ...

The story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke has captured the imaginations of North Carolinians for centuries. And what actually happened to those colonists remains a mystery, despite so many efforts to ...

The mystery of Roanoke’s “lost colony” has survived for more than four centuries, but a faint symbol on a fragile Elizabethan map is now giving archaeologists their clearest lead yet. A tiny, hidden ...

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. The nonprofit ...

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. The nonprofit ...

DARE COUNTY, N.C. (WRAL) - The mystery surrounding the Lost Colony, Roanoke and Sir Walter Raleigh’s early explorers is one that’s fascinated generations of North Carolinians. Next week, ...

No, archeologists didn’t recently discover the mystery behind a legendary lost British colony from the 16th century. It would’ve been the biggest history story of the year. But it’s not. Because it’s ...

Human history is full of mysteries, from the Ark of the Covenant to the story of Atlantis. But some, like the lost colony of Roanoke, are truly eerie. In the late 1500s, a group of colonists vanished ...