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

Archaeologists from the First Colony Foundation, a North Carolina nonprofit devoted to ... to look through a periscope that goes far back in history,” she says. But the image remains stubbornly ...

An ancient map from 400 years ago, known as "La Virginea Pars," may hold the key to solving the mystery of the lost Roanoke ...

Next week marks 244 years since Wilmington was overtaken by British troops during the final months of the Revolutionary War ...

An ancient map from 400 years ago, known as "La Virginea Pars," may hold the key to solving the mystery of the lost Roanoke ...

Peter Hutchins Wood is the author of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (1974), which has been described as one of the most influential books on ...

North Carolina, which was at one time combined with South Carolina to form a single territory, was one of the original 13 colonies and became the 12th state in 1789. It sent the most troops to ...