When the settlers at Roanoke vanished in 1590, they left behind one piece of evidence: the word "Croatoan" carved into a ...

A 400-year-old map could reveal the secrets of a lost English colony that experts have spent hundreds of years searching for.

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 ...

Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony ... map on a lightbox to see what was behind the blank cover-up, whereupon the duo discovered a symbol for a fort. The ...

The plume from Roanoke Island “put us ... grew up fascinated by Lost Colony legends and owns a modern copy of White’s watercolor map. In 2011 he became curious about two faint patches on ...

The 16th-century map provides insights into the fate of the settlers who formed the so-called Lost Colony of Roanoke. This small settlement of more than 100 English colonists was founded on ...