A 400-year-old mystery, a missing colony, and a single carved word that has baffled historians for centuries. The disappearance of the Roanoke Colony, settlers from England on American soil, has long been treated as an unsolvable case. But in 2025, a quiet team of archaeologists uncovered something no one expected, something that may finally bring closure to one of America’s most chilling unsolved stories. What they discovered challenges everything we thought we knew about the first English settlers in the New World. This is how scientists finally solved the Roanoke colony mystery in 2025!