The mystery of Roanoke’s “lost colony” has survived for more than four centuries, but a faint symbol on a fragile Elizabethan map is now giving archaeologists their clearest lead yet. A tiny, hidden ...

Few mysteries in American history have gripped the public imagination quite like the disappearance of the Roanoke Colony. In 1587, an expedition of 118 men, women, and children set out from England ...