A 400-year-old map could reveal the secrets of a lost English colony that experts have spent hundreds of years searching for.

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

An ancient map dating back 400 years ... that archaeologists had stumbled upon a previously unknown English settlement. The First Colony Foundation of North Carolina conducted further investigations ...

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analysed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John White, ...

The map, titled 'La Virginea Pars,' was drawn by John White, a cartographer who was part of the Roanoke colony. It depicts parts of the North Carolina shoreline running from the north-eastern ...

Brent Lane, who taught heritage economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, grew up fascinated by Lost Colony legends and owns a modern copy of White’s watercolor map.