Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke ... experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of ...

suggesting the lost colonists of Roanoke went “native”. In 2012, the First Colony Foundation asked the British Museum to take a closer look at a 16th-century map drawn by Governor White.

Experts from the First Colony Foundation and the British Museum in London discussed ... White made the map and other drawings when he traveled to Roanoke Island in 1585 on an expedition commanded ...

The fates of the Roanoke colonists, who vanished from the banks of what is now North Carolina in the late 16th century, have never been fully settled. While several native tribes claim their ...

Appointed governor of the fledgling Roanoke colony by Sir Walter ... Known as La Virginea Pars map and part of the British Museum’s permanent collection, the document made headlines in 2012 ...

The map was painted by John White between 1585 and 1586. Picture: British Museum The findings suggest that while Site X didn’t harbour all the Roanoke settlers, a few of them likely decamped there.