The recent discovery of copious amounts of iron trash on North Carolina's Hatteras Island may reveal the fate of a ...

Two decades before Jamestown ... abandoning their settlement on Roanoke Island. Photograph by Stuart Conway WITH PERMISSION OF TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM Croatoan was the name of both a ...

One of the greatest mysteries in American history is the Lost Colony of Roanoke, a small settlement ... that the colonists ...

CROATOAN. The word was found written on a fencepost in the lost colony of Roanoke ... “We have no picture of Jamestown except for a rudimentary triangle on a map, nor do we have a representation ...

Historians have debated the fate of the so-called 'Lost Colony' for years - having been left with no more evidence than the word 'Croatoan ... colony's capital near Roanoke Island.

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 ...

An illustration depicting John White and others finding a tree carved with the words “Croatoan” on Roanoke Island ... year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named ...

Thanks to a secret message on a centuries-old map ... “Croatoan,” the former name of what is now Hatteras Island, carved into a post. There are many theories about what became of Roanoke ...

In 1585, explorer John White traveled to Roanoke Island, and made a map and other drawings of the ... literally and symbolically, 'the way to Jamestown.' As such, it is a unique discovery of ...

on Hatteras Island, the home of the indigineous Croatoan people, suggesting the colony members lived alongside them. Before the Revolution, even before Jamestown, an English colony was established ...

Archaeologists have discovered 16th-century artifacts on Hatteras Island. | Credit: Mark Horton / Croatoan Archaeological ... English settlers who arrived on Roanoke Island in North Carolina's ...

John White depicted finding a tree carved with ‘Croatoan ... map on a lightbox to see what was behind the blank cover-up, whereupon the duo discovered a symbol for a fort. The Roanoke Island ...