The 510-year-old map is the first to name America. A world map in the form of ... but it's also the first map to show separate South and North American continents and is the earliest recorded ...

But solving the centuries-old mystery ... A notable artist, his map is considerably accurate and his other works are held in the British Museum. Having landed in North America, the settlers ...

Africa is three times bigger than North America, for example ... The goal is not to toss out all the old maps but to use the new ones to compare competing narratives about the world, said Natacha ...

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 ...

One national park river is widely regarded as the oldest river in North America, formed an estimated 260 million to ... but a few of the paths they carve into the Earth are as old as the Nile. And ...