June
21
/ 2020
The fate of the mysterious vanishing Roanoke Colony is becoming clearer as archaeologists have continued to find evidence on Hatteras Island. As historical mysteries go, there is perhaps none so famous as the vanishing Roanoke Colony which Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to found as the first permanent English settlement in North America. Established by governor Ralph Lane in 1585, on Roanoke Island, in what is now Dare County, North Carolina, this attempt to colonize the new world saw around 100 people landing there in 1587. And it was this group of people that have become known as the “Lost Colony,” due to their unexplained disappearance, sparking one of America's oldest unsolved mysteries. But 400 years after these apparently bizarre happenings
