The disappearance of the Roanoke colony remains one of the oldest unsolved mysteries in the United States. It all began back in 1587, when Sir Walter Raleigh financed the attempts of John White to ...

Archaeologists have uncovered two large piles of iron flakes on North Carolina's Hatteras Island that they say are evidence of a 16th-century "Lost Colony" of English settlers who disappeared in 1587.

One of the most confounding mysteries from the early days of this nation has finally been solved after 435 years – researchers say they have located the so-called Lost Colony of Roanoke.