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 ...

Photo: DPA/LMU Tucked away in a geometry book at the Munich University Library, researchers found a 500-year old map of the new world, and one of the first to show the name “America”.

“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 ...

Click the old map and see it superimposed over the site ... of European countries we would recognize today, while most of central Asia consisted of territories of nomadic groups.

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 ...

Indigenous communities may play a crucial role in the preservation of Central America’s forests, according to a new map produced by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The ...