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 ...

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.

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, ...

Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great American ... the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John ...

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

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 ...

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