The caper concerns a group of some 100 British settlers who landed on Roanoke Island off North Carolina in ... They put John White’s map on a lightbox to see what was behind the blank ...

Secret in 400-year-old map may have finally solved ... British settlers who landed on Roanoke Island off North Carolina in the 16th century to ... to see what was behind the blank ...

Clues hiding in the details of a 400-year-old map could solve the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke that scholars have spent hundreds of years searching for.. In 1587, a group of colonists ...

(Roanoke Island’s two towns, Wanchese and Manteo, are named after the men.) Pleased with reports from that expedition, Queen Elizabeth I knighted Raleigh in 1585 and named the land, located in ...

Stock image: Illustration depicts John White (c. 1540 - c1593) and others as they find a tree into which the word "CROATOAN" had been carved on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in 1590.

Secret in 400-year-old map may have finally solved the mystery of Roanoke. Researchers believe they might have finally cracked the case of a creepy unsolved mystery that has baffled historians for ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Archaeology. Followed categories will be added to My News. Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great ...