The 510-year-old map is the first to name America. A world map in the form of a set of gores for a terrestrial globe, from 1507 by cartographer Martin Waldseemueller is displayed at Christie's ...

“It is a map of South America and a part of Central America ... Nazis’ hostile aspirations in what was (under the century old Monroe doctrine) still considered “America’s backyard ...

A centuries-old copy of a 500-year-old map that christened the New World as “America” has been discovered at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich – folded and wedged inside of an old book ...