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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 of Roanoke — a great American mystery that has eluded historians for centuries. The caper concerns a group of some 100 British ...

The apparent fort was located toward the western end of Albemarle Sound, less than 100 miles (161 ... only belonged to the Roanoke refugees. The map was painted by John White between 1585 and ...

Experts believe they may have finally solved the centuries-old mystery of America's lost Roanoke colony through hidden details discovered in a 400-year-old map. A blank spot on the historic "La ...

The only clue left behind was the word Croatoan carved on a wooden post. An ancient map dating back 400 years, titled La ...

Among these is a colorful map of eastern North Carolina ... It lay not on Roanoke Island but some 50 miles away, at the head of Albemarle Sound—matching White’s mention that the colonists ...

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