Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John ...

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John ...

Lost Colony of Roanoke: Map’s hidden clue could solve 400-year-old mystery. ... the First Colony Foundation asked the British Museum to take a closer look at a 16th-century map drawn by Governor ...

Known as La Virginea Pars map and part of the British Museum’s permanent collection, the document made headlines in 2012 when researchers discovered a tiny, four-pointed star hidden under a ...

A late 16th-century map, which is now in the British Museum in London, has two fort symbols near where the two sites are located, suggesting that the Roanoke colonists may have been aware of these ...

The British Museum has owned this map, created in 1585 by Roanoke governor John White (the very man who returned to the colony in 1590 to find it abandoned) since 1866.