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

Reaching the abandoned settlement, the governor spotted a post on which “in fair capital letters was graven CROATOAN without any cross or sign of distress.” Yet the post itself was part of a ...

An illustration depicting John White and others finding a tree carved with the words “Croatoan” on Roanoke ... One side displays the sign of the cross — a symbol of emergency– and the ...

The only clue left behind was the word Croatoan carved on a wooden post. An ancient map dating back 400 years, titled La ...

One of the greatest mysteries in American history is the Lost Colony of Roanoke, a small settlement of more than […] ...

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 ... One side displays the sign of the cross — a symbol of emergency — and the phrase “Ananias Dare & / Virginia ...

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

The only trace of the settlers he found was the word 'CROATOAN' carved into a wooden post, which was the name of another island just south of Roanoke and a Native American tribe that lived there.