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 ...

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 ...

While they found no evidence of a settlement layout similar to Jamestown ... marked on White's map has opened new possibilities about the colonists' movements after leaving Roanoke.