Evidence over time has suggested that a number of the settlers may have ended up living with Natives, or at least in intimate contact with them. So, some have suggested the answer is simple, the colonists simply assimilated. But a good mystery analyst is always…well… forming strong theories and then shooting them down. Yes, finding […]
Painting depicting the baptism of Virginia Dare. Now, two independent teams have found archaeological remains suggesting that at least some of the Roanoke colonists might have survived and split into two groups, each of which assimilated itself into a different Native American community. One team is excavating a site near Cape Creek on Hatteras Island, […]
Investigations into the fate of the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke have continued over the centuries, but no one has come up with a satisfactory answer. “Croatoan” was the name of an island south of Roanoke that was home to a Native American tribe of the same name. Perhaps, then, the colonists were killed or abducted […]
The lost colony of Roanoke It seemed too good to be true. And it was. Nearly 20 years ago, excavators digging on North Carolina’s remote Hatteras Island uncovered a worn ring emblazoned with a prancing lion. A local jeweler declared it gold—but it came to be seen as more than mere buried treasure when a […]
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