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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

This certainly wasn’t something that could be done 400 years ago - which leads us to the mystery that researchers have debated ... upon his return in 1590 - finding only the word 'CROATOAN' carved in ...