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

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

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The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...

Three years had ... tree with the carved letters “C R O.” This was, the governor explained, a prearranged code. If the settlers were to leave the island, they should carve their destination ...

An illustration depicting John White and others finding a tree carved with the words “Croatoan” on Roanoke ... where archaeologists had discovered ceramic artifacts of British origin.

It appeared that someone had covered up a small section ... 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 ...

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, ...

However, by 1590, the traces of the colony had disappeared, and nothing remained of over 100 people. The only clue left behind was the word Croatoan carved ... or assimilated into a nearby Native ...