The Vinland Map, which supposedly showed the exploration of North America by Vikings in the 15th century, is fake, according to researchers at Yale. The map was first discovered in 1965 ...

Acquired by Yale University and publicized to great fanfare in 1965, the Vinland Map—supposedly dated to mid-15th century Europe—showed part of the coast of North America, seemingly presenting ...

Around 1930, an employee with the U.S. Geological Survey simply took a cutout of the map of North America, and balanced it on the top of a pin. Not the most sophisticated method, perhaps ...

Of course, the map doesn’t show us much, though a pyramid-shaped ... seemingly just a few hundred miles away from coastal North America. [Princeton Library] Gigantic fish, mermen, volcanoes ...

The company said once the GNIS is updated to show the “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” and “Mount McKinley” instead of “Mount Denali”, Google Maps will reflect the ...

In the long term, the map could inspire and inform modeling efforts aimed at better understanding North America's geologic past, as well as the continent's present day tectonic intricacies.

Over at Reddit’s awesome NBA sub, user jfreedo created a map that shows the fanbase of every team in North America based on ... blip on the map just to show they exist. It’s a pretty ...