Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great American ... the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John ...

Without the model set by the Roanoke voyages, some scholars now say, it is hard to imagine a Jamestown ... the venture generated highly accurate maps, detailed lists of resources and remarkable ...

Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that men wearing European clothes were living on the Carolina mainland west of Roanoke ... a colorful map of eastern ...

A map drawn by the colony's governor includes ... One intriguing clue that points to Roanoke colonists rather than Jamestown traders is the lack of early 17 th-century clay pipes at Site X and ...

When its marked location was uncovered from White's map years later, experts began to think the Roanoke settlers left ... resembling a settlement like Jamestown or Plymouth,' according to the ...

the way to Jamestown.' As such, it is a unique discovery of the first importance." What happened to settlers? White made the map and other drawings when he traveled to Roanoke Island in 1585 on an ...

Our tour guide at Jamestown in Virginia didn’t check to see whom she was addressing before she smirked that the Pilgrims of the Mayflower – so celebrated in U.S. history books – were not the ...

The map was painted by John White between 1585 and 1586. Picture: British Museum The findings suggest that while Site X didn’t harbour all the Roanoke settlers, a few of them likely decamped there.