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 ...

A 5,000-year-old map that some claim outlines the American ... and topographical features that resemble North and South America. Theories about contact between Old World and New World ...

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 ...

The first people to cross into North America from Eurasia did so by traveling ... dated at 13,000 years old, teases at the possibility. Complicating matters, scientists aren’t even sure if ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The only surviving copy of the 500-year-old map that first used the ... new continents and reconnecting the north to Asia. South America is labeled Terra Nova -- New World ...

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 ...