When the settlers at Roanoke vanished in 1590, they left behind one piece of evidence: the word "Croatoan" carved into a ...

What was lost is now found. Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of ... others finding a tree carved with the words “Croatoan” on Roanoke Island, North ...

The plume from Roanoke Island “put us in good hope that some of the colony were there ... s Machapunga in 1960. If the lost colonists melted into the Croatoan and then the Machapunga, their ...

The legend of the Lost Colony of Roanoke has haunted American history ... the only trace they left behind was a structure of tree trunks, with a single word carved into one post: CROATOAN. The ...

The 16th-century map provides insights into the fate of the settlers who formed the so-called Lost Colony ... they find a tree into which the word "CROATOAN" had been carved on Roanoke Island ...

Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great ... John White depicted finding a tree carved with ‘Croatoan’. Picture: Stock Montage/Getty ...