Two decades before Jamestown, settlers arrived in what is now North Carolina. What happened to them is a mystery, but there are some clues. Excavations at the site of a Native American town on ...

Archaeologists with the First Colony Foundation uncovered fragments of 16th-century English pottery in Bertie County, North Carolina, believed to belong to survivors of the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke.

He was dumped in his grave with little ceremony. He had no coffin, no burial shroud and probably no family to mourn him. He had a broken right leg and perhaps damaged ribs. His right arm was pulled ...

Find provides “compelling evidence” to help solve one of America’s oldest historical mysteries. More than a hundred men, women, and children sailed from England to North Carolina in 1587 to build a ...

On Aug. 27, 1587, John White, the governor of Roanoke Island colony, an English settlement in what is now North Carolina, sailed to England in hopes of gathering badly needed supplies and ...

Regarding the Monday, Jan. 16, editorial headlined, "New exhibit takes aim at racial stereotypes": You stated that "this exhibit demands some hard thinking about our views of those who inhabited the ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – When Hurricane Matthew brisked by the First Coast last October, it left quite a bit of damage to the city of St. Augustine. One such place was a building called Fiesta Mall, the ...