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

An illustration depicting John White and others finding a tree carved with the words “Croatoan” on Roanoke ... Rugheimer shed literal light on the mystery: They put John White’s map on ...

The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

A local organization, the Croatoan Archaeological Society ... “But it could solve some of this mystery by inferring that the colonists survived.” New pieces of the puzzle, including English ...

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

John White depicted finding a tree carved with ‘Croatoan’. Picture ... and colleague Alice Rugheimer shed literal light on the mystery — they put John White’s map on a lightbox to see ...