The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

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North Carolina, in 1590. Getty Images Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn ...