“The Indians of Roanoke, Croatoan, ... A Runestone in a Canada Forest: Researchers spent years quietly studying a stone carved with 255 runes and the image of a boat found in Ontario.

Archaeologists could have finally solved the 435-year mystery of America's first English settlement, known as the "lost ...

Searchers found the word “CROATOAN” carved on a post—a possible clue to the colonists’ intended destination. Excavations at a Native American village site on Croatoan ...

One of the only clues remaining at the site was the word “CROATOAN” carved into a palisade. It either referred to Croatoan Island, which is now called Hatteras Island, or the Croatoan Indians.

When the settlers at Roanoke vanished in 1590, they left behind one piece of evidence: the word "Croatoan" carved into a fence post. Following this clue, archaeologists just conducted a decade ...

One of the only clues remaining at the site was the word "CROATOAN" carved into a palisade. It either referred to Croatoan Island, which is now called Hatteras Island, or the Croatoan Indians.

Croatoan was jotted down in in the journal of Amelia Earnhart after she disappeared in 1937. Robber Black Bart etched the word into his prison cell before he was released. Upon his dismissal, he ...

In 1587 a group of English settlers arrived on Roanoke Island to start a new life, but three years later more than 100 of the colonists vanished – leaving only the word 'CROATOAN' carved in a ...

Before he left Roanoke in 1587, he had asked them to leave a carving in a tree or stone to communicate their new location if they moved. As he surveyed the abandoned settlement, he saw the word ...

Stock image: Illustration depicts John White (c. 1540 - c1593) and others as they find a tree into which the word "CROATOAN" had been carved on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in 1590.

A single palisade remained, with the word CROATOAN carved into it (the name of a nearby indigenous tribe). Related Story. A Hidden Clue Might Solve an American Mystery; ...