For more than 400 years, the mystery of how 118 colonists just up and disappeared from Roanoke Island in what is now North ...

The ‘amateur archaeologist’ says he’s discovered proof of what happened to the colony members who completely vanished from ...

"It's funny that people still pretend that the colonists carved a mysterious word on a tree — 'Croatoan' — and no one knows ...

Photograph by Stuart Conway WITH PERMISSION OF TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM Croatoan was the name of both a barrier island to the south and the indigenous people who lived there, Carolina ...

Finding the bits of iron was a turning point in the years of digging to prove that what has been chronicled as the Lost Colony that eft Roanoke Island voluntarily went to Croatoan Island where the ...

The clue found on the tree post – CROATOAN – almost certainly relates to the nearby Croatoan Island, which was populated by a tribe known to be friendly to the settlers. Indeed, White even asked the ...