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

North Carolina, in 1590. Getty Images Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn ...

So states Sherlock Holmes in The Red-Headed League. The Master Detective claims to be an accomplished orienteer, able to ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum earlier this month jokingly suggested North America, including the United States, be renamed "Mexican America" - a historic name used on an early map of the region.

Google also said Denali, a mountain in southern Alaska and North America's tallest peak, is going to be called Mount McKinley on its maps for those ... of its heroes and historic assets." ...

but popular mapping services from Google and Apple have continued showing the old name. On Monday, Google said it would update its maps to display Gulf of America as soon as the U.S. government ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Washington | Google Maps will change the name of “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America” once the US government updates ...

Clues hiding in the details of a 400-year-old ... 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 ...

The caper concerns a group of some 100 British settlers who landed on Roanoke Island off North Carolina in ... analysed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists ...

Sam Cullen’s new book, London’s Lost Pubs (£20, Pen and Sword), explores the histories of over 200 vanished pubs, drawing on online reviews and pub guides dating back to the 1920s to bring these ...