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”.

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The only surviving copy of the 500-year-old map that first used the name America goes on permanent display this month at the Library of Congress, but even as it prepares for ...