A rarely seen 400-year-old map that identified Florida as "the Land of Flowers" and put China at the center ... world's highest mountain and longest river. The brief description of North America ...

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 ...

Brazil has launched a new world map that places the ... “By placing Brazil at the center, it challenges the traditional idea that Europe and North America are the focal points of global ...

It is considered one of the world’s rarest maps and believed to be the first map to name America. They discussed the history and unanswered questions surrounding Waldseemuller’s maps ...

GENEVA — Centuries before it became a continent or country synonymous with wealth, power, freedom or democracy, "America" was coined ... its first use on a world map. The murky origins are ...

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 ...