In March 1622, what appeared to be another ordinary morning in the Virginia colony turned into one of the deadliest attacks ...

An investigation of human remains from the 17th century British settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, has unearthed a long-hidden scandal in the family of the colony's first governor. Thomas West became ...

Detail of cut marks found on the girl’s jaw, or lower mandible in a stereo-microscopic photo. Smithsonian Institution / Don Hurlbert The harsh winter of 1609 in Virginia’s Jamestown Colony forced ...

Two decades before Jamestown, settlers arrived in what is now North Carolina. What happened to them is a mystery, but there ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - September 10, 1608: John Smith was elected President of the Jamestown Colony Council in Virginia. Early in the colony’s history, times were difficult due to food shortages, ...

The researchers focused on the Jamestown colony in Virginia due to the number of canid remains available at the site and the evidence of Indigenous influence. They worked with Jamestown Rediscovery to ...

Scholars find a wealth of information in glass fragments, copper scraps, and oyster shells unearthed in recent excavations at the colonial site It’s only midmorning on a cold April day, and already ...

England's Queen Elizabeth II visits the historical settlement of Jamestown Friday to mark the 400th anniversary of the town's founding. Three historians discuss the settlement's significance and how ...