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

Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that men wearing European clothes were living on the Carolina mainland west of Roanoke and Croatoan Islands.

An illustration depicting John White and others finding a tree carved with the words “Croatoan” on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in 1590. Getty Images Their whereabouts baffled historians ...

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

Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great American ... John White depicted finding a tree carved with ‘Croatoan’. Picture: Stock Montage ...