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The Mystery of the Roanoke Colony: A Stone's Throw Away from Solving the Puzzle
TLDR The Roanoke Colony, the first English colony in America, disappeared without a trace, leaving behind a mystery that has intrigued historians for centuries. A potentially authentic stone with an inscribed message has sparked debate and controversy, offering a glimmer of hope in unraveling the fate of the lost colony.
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The Roanoke Colony was the first attempt at an English colony in America, led by John White and including his daughter Eleanor Dare and her husband Ananias Dare, who had the first English-born baby in America named Virginia Dare.
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The first English baby born in the New World was Virginia Dare, but when her grandfather John White returned to the Roanoke Colony after three years, everyone was gone and there was no evidence of what happened to them.
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A man named Lewis Hammond found a stone with an inscribed message that potentially solved the mystery of the Roanoke Colony, but he couldn't remember where he found it and disappeared after selling it to Emory University.
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The authenticity of the original stone and its potential to solve the mystery of the Roanoke Colony is still debated.
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The authenticity of the original stone was questioned, leading to suspicions about the credibility of the man who found it, but this did not deter others from creating and selling forgeries of the stones.
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The Saturday Evening Post exposed the Dare Stones as a complete forgery, leading to a public relations crisis for Brunel University and causing them to bury the stones away.
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The first Dare Stone, made of white quartzite, is believed by some to be authentic due to its different rock composition, lack of anachronistic language, and expert opinions, and the fact that it would have been difficult to forge.
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