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

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.

The Outer Banks consist of a collection of barrier islands along the North Carolina coast. The area is split into three regions, according to the Visitors Bureau: the Northern Beaches, Roanoke ...

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, ...

The caper concerns a group of some 100 British settlers who landed on Roanoke Island off North Carolina in the 16th ... 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists ...

and others as they find a tree into which the word "CROATOAN" had been carved on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in 1590. Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images An examination of the map by ...

In 1587, a group of colonists arrived at an island between North Carolina and the ... was uncovered from White's map years later, experts began to think the Roanoke settlers left the island ...