In 1607, 104 English settlers picked the worst possible spot to build America’s first permanent colony. The 104 original ...

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In this image, the Dutch sailors, who have captured the blacks from a Spanish ship, are negotiating a trade with the Jamestown settlers for food. No record of the ship's name was made at the time.

But Jamestown proved to be neither paradise nor gold mine. In the heat of that first summer at the mosquito-infested settlement, 46 of the colonists died of fever, starvation or Indian arrows.

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 ...

The study, published in the journal American Antiquity, argues that cut marks on historic canine bones from Jamestown ...

The Virginia Company of London was desperate to populate its struggling colony in America. Twelve years earlier, in 1607, three ships carrying about 100 English colonists -- most of them men ...

The British colonists who settled a bit of land they soon named Jamestown (depicted in a 19th-century engraving) gave England its first enduring encampment in the New World--and, not incidentally ...