October
18
/ 2020
American researchers have presented new archaeological evidence of what they think represents survivors from the lost Roanoke colony in Bertie County, North Carolina, living among native populations. However, established Roanoke experts have strongly questioned the new findings related to this latest Roanoke colony theory. The established view of the fate of the Roanoke settlers differs from the most recent Roanoke colony theory that suggests some survived and lived out their lives in what is now Bertie County. In the 1580s AD, Queen Elizabeth I commanded famous explorer Sir Walter Raleigh to venture to the New World and found the first permanent English colony in North America, the Roanoke Colony. After Humphrey Gilbert claimed St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1583, Roanoke was
