The absence of evidence spawned wild speculation, hoaxes, and countless conspiracy theories ... from the First Colony Foundation, a North Carolina nonprofit devoted to Roanoke-related archaeology ...

So that discovery quickly sparked a popular theory that the Roanoke settlers had left the colony for the island. Now, archaeologist Scott Dawson’s decades-long excavation work has potentially ...

Married to Ananias Dare, Eleanor gave birth to Virginia—the first English child born in the New World—shortly after the English colonists landed on Roanoke ... of the Lost Colony’s ordeal ...