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Researchers believe they may have solved the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke.
The Lost Colony of Roanoke was an English settlement established by Governor John White on Roanoke Island that mysteriously disappeared in 1590.
In 1587, Governor White left the Island to get supplies in England, but upon his return, he discovered the colonists were all missing, hence beginning one of America’s greatest mysteries.
Now, researchers believe they have pinpointed the location of the lost colony by analyzing the “La Virginea Pars,” a 400-year-old map created by White.
British Museum curator Kim Sloan and her colleague Alice Rugheimer got closer to cracking the long-time mystery after placing White’s map on a lightbox, which resulted in the pair discovering a fort behind a blank coverup.
After discovering the fort, Sloan shared, “I said to Alice, I think we just discovered the intended site for the Cittie of Raleigh, the colony that John White was sent to Virginia to found.”
The fort Sloan discovered on the map is located nearly 100 miles from the Roanoke settler’s whereabouts and a dig site called 31BR246 where archeologists have discovered English pottery dating back to the late 1500s.
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— New York Post (@nypost) January 27, 2025
Per The New York Post:
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 settlers who landed on Roanoke Island off North Carolina in the 16th century to establish an English foothold in the New World, Popular Mechanics reported.
But then, just three years later, both the colonists and their settlement vanished without a trace.
Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John White, finding that the parchment displayed the location where they may have ended up, Great Britain News reported.
…details of a 400-year-old map could solve the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke’ https://t.co/7wccRGDiG2 via @MailOnline
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