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"It's funny that people still pretend that the colonists carved a mysterious word on a tree — 'Croatoan' — and no one knows ...
The ‘amateur archaeologist’ says he’s discovered proof of what happened to the colony members who completely vanished from ...
For more than 400 years, the mystery of how 118 colonists just up and disappeared from Roanoke Island in what is now 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 settlers, who arrived in 1587, disappeared in 1590, leaving behind only two clues: the words "Croatoan" carved into a fort's gatepost and "Cro" etched into a tree. Theories about the ...
The basic beats of the story behind the Lost Colony of Roanoke go something like ... the letters CRO carved into a tree trunk, and the word CROATOAN etched into a wooden post at the entrance ...
In 1585, the English settlers reached the New World and established a colony on the island of Roanoke ... to Croatoan.” Earlier this year, Dawson published a book, The Lost Colony and Hatteras ...
Stories have taken root that the colonists, who left no clear trace aside from the word “Croatoan” carved on a tree, survived ... “The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island,” published in ...
What happened to the first established US colony is one of the most enduring mysteries in modern history. The inhabitants of ...
The lost colonists of Roanoke left behind a clue about their fate, the word 'Croatoan' carved into a tree. Who were the Croatans? What were their lives like? How can we see this whole story ...