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 Roanoke — a great American mystery that has eluded historians for centuries. The caper concerns a ...

he found his settlement completely abandoned, save for a wooden post with the word “CROATAN” carved into it — which was the name of another island situated just south of Roanoke, as well as ...