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 ...

It all began in 1587 when more than a hundred English colonists landed on Roanoke Island, off the coast of what is now North Carolina. This would have been the first permanent English settlement in ...