What was lost is now found. Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great American mystery that has eluded historians for centuries. The caper concerns a ...

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

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

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 ... a colorful map of eastern ...

In 1587, a group of English settlers established the Roanoke Colony on an island between what is now North Carolina and the Outer Banks. However, by 1590, the traces of the colony had disappeared, and ...

The map, titled 'La Virginea Pars,' was drawn by John White, a cartographer who was part of the Roanoke colony ... features resembling a settlement like Jamestown or Plymouth,' according to ...

Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony ... map on a lightbox to see what was behind the blank cover-up, whereupon the duo discovered a symbol for a fort. The ...