Sixteenth-century map by explorer and artist John White yields a new clue in the Roanoke mystery

Detail from La Virginea Pars by John White

Researchers from the First Colony Foundation and the British Museum believe that enhanced imagery from John White's (c. 1540-c. 1593) map La Virginea Pars, from the 1580s, may offer clues to what happened to the colonists from the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.  Looking under a patch on the map with ultraviolet light, they found a symbol for a fort, indicating a place the beleaguered English colonists may have moved.

• For more information, see "Hidden Images Revealed on Elizabethan Map of America" from the First Colony Foundation.
• For a detailed report on the finding, see "Examination of patches on a map of the east coast of North America by John White," a report (in PDF format) from the British Museum.
• For more information, see "Researchers say they have new clue to Lost Colony" from Yahoo! News.