Every American schooltime kid instruct the story of theLost Colony of Roanoke . But could its luck have been obliterate in unvarnished sight all along , behind some patches on a map ? It ’s a major clew that could finally solve a 400 yr sometime whodunit .
consort to the Daily Telegraph , scholar in the U.S. and U.K. , study the 16th hundred La Virginea Pars map painted by James White , think they have found clues that unveil where the colonists may have vanish to : the merging of the Chowan and Roanoke rivers .
The key to the discovery are two patches on the map . The painstakingly exact map was a key cock in recruiting new investor and colonists for Britain ’s New World settlement . Given its importance , the patches conduce Brent Lane of the First Colony Foundation to wonder what was underneath them . Quite a lot , as it turns out .
One patch corrects error on the placement of villages along the Pamlico river shoreline . But the other hid the emplacement of a possible fort . Modern America has covered that localisation with a golf course and subdivision , which signify it could be year before the expanse is excavated , but this is a major step along the way to solving a 400 year older mystery story . [ Daily Telegraph ]
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