In 1587, a group of English settlers arrived on an island on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean to establish the first English settlement, but disappeared without a trace just three years later.
Four centuries have passed but, today, there is hardly any information about the secrets of this lost colony. However, the hidden tracks in the details of a 400 -year -old map could now resolve the mystery of the Lost Colonia de Roanoke.
The map, entitled ‘La Virginea Pars’, was drawn by John White, a cartographer who was part of that colony. A closest inspection of the map, which represents part of the North Carolina coast, He revealed a blank where it seems that someone covered a small section but never made a correction. The place is less than one hundred miles where English witnesses last saw the Colonos de Roanoke, the newspaper says
The blank corresponds to a location near Bertie County, at the western end of Albemarle Sound.
“I told Alice, ‘I think we just discovered the predicted location for the city of Raleigh, the colony for which John White was sent to Virginia,” said Kim Sloan, a curator of the British Museum who made the discovery together with His colleague, the conservative of Papel Alice Ruhamer, according to Mail Online.
This site also coincides with the location of an archaeological site, 31br246, where Nicholas Luccketti of the James River Institute of Archeology found elements of English ceramics in 2007. These artifacts included fragments of Border Ware, a specific type of English ceramics that had been restricted to The first settlements in Virginia, probably dating from the 16th century. The finding suggests that archaeologists had stumbled upon previously unknown English settlement.
Based on these discoveries, the First Colonia Foundation concluded that There was an English presence at that point that could only have come from the Colonos de Roanoke. It is not believed that it was a place of relocation of the entire colony, but as a refuge point for some of them.
The First Colony Foundation plans to continue investigating in search of more evidence of English presence there and any clue that can provide more information about what happened with the inhabitants of the lost colony in 1587.
The history of these settlers
At that time, Queen Elizabeth I and the famous explorer Sir Walter Raleigh hoped that an expedition to America would help generate new income for the empire. The ship, with 115 people on board, was the first to bring women and children to the American continent.
The group included the pregnant daughter of the English artist and governor John White, Eleanor White Dare, who gave birth a few weeks later. This baby, called Virginia Dare, was the first baby born in the New World.
Then, Governor White returned to England to gather more supplies, but was held for three years while England was at war with Spain.
When he finally returned in 1590, the colony was deserted And almost all evidence about his daughter and granddaughter had disappeared.
The only trace of the settlers he found was the word “Croatoan” carved in a wooden post, the name of another island just south of Roanoke, home of an American native tribe.
The mystery of the Lost Colonia de Roanoke has inspired numerous theories over the centuries. Some suggest that the settlers died from diseases, others that were massacred by native Americans or Spanish settlers. Some also maintain the theory that they integrated into a nearby American tribe, such as friends or as slaves. But his luck, today, is still a mystery.
