In the heart of North Carolina's Outer Banks lies a place shrouded in shadow: Roanoke Island. It was there, in the late 16th century, that a settlement of English explorers arrived, seeking opportunity. But by the time the next expedition arrived, they found the colony utterly deserted. The colonists had vanished without a whisper, leaving behind o

The Rosetta Stone, a monumental artifact unearthed in 1799, has served as a key to understanding the cryptic hieroglyphs of ancient Egyptian civilization. This remarkable slab, inscribed with the same decree in three different scripts—hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Greek—provided the crucial link necessary for deciphering the long-lost language of