Ever since White’s puzzlement, many people have developed many theories of what happened to the lost colonists.

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"It's funny that people still pretend that the colonists carved a mysterious word on a tree — 'Croatoan' — and no one knows ...

Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great ... which was backed by Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh, arrived on the island in 1587 ...

The man that site is named for is Sir Walter Raleigh, the English explorer ... and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke. By the 1800s, though, Lawler says the theory that the colonists ...

Archeologists think that’s the case with a copper earring unearthed in 2023 at a dig at the Elizabethan Gardens at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site on Roanoke Island on the Outer Banks.

It all began back in 1587, when Sir Walter Raleigh financed the attempts of John White to establish a British colony on Roanoke Island, just off the coast of North Carolina. They landed that July ...

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 ...