Weird But True: 01/24/25
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 English expedition, which was backed by Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh, arrived on the island in 1587, establishing the first permanent English settlement in America. Those remained mere conjectures for 422 years until British Museum curator Kim Sloan and colleague Alice Rugheimer shed literal light on the mystery: They put John White’s map on a lightbox to see what was behind the blank coverup, whereupon the duo discovered a symbol for a fort.
It suggested that the location, now known as Site X, was a previously unknown English settlement. North Carolina’s First Colony Foundation scanned the repository using satellite-based remote sensing technology but didn’t discover “topographic features resembling a settlement like Jamestown or Plymouth.
In 1937, archaeologists discovered another clue, known as the Dare Stone, which contained writings from Eleanor White Dare.
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