WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The only surviving copy of the 500-year-old map that first ... the 1507 Waldseemuller map, and flags marking territorial claims in South America suggest Portugal controls ...

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 ...

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 ...

“It is a map of South America and a part of Central ... aspirations in what was (under the century old Monroe doctrine) still considered “America’s backyard”—had its intended effect.

After an unprecedented five-year tour of South America ... of his time in Spanish America, but these books were so full of facts, figures, illustrations and maps they would change how Europeans ...