Two decades before Jamestown, settlers arrived in what is now North Carolina. What happened to them is a mystery, but there are some clues. Excavations at the site of a Native American town on ...

Wikimedia CommonsJohn White’s depiction of his 1590 expedition to Roanoke Island, when he discovered that the colony had disappeared. Now, recently-unearthed evidence may shed light on what ...

This is a follow-up to a story that appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a fall morning in 1937, an Emory University geologist was walking down a hallway in the ...