Human History Famous Viking Map of North America Is Totally Fake Revealed in 1965, the map was taken as further proof that Vikings reached the Americas before Columbus.

A map of America touted as being one of the oldest on record has turned out to be a convincing forgery, according to new studies. For decades, many believed that the Vinland Map was an important ...

Experts at Yale University have proved the Vinland Map, which supposedly showed the exploration of North America by Vikings in the 15th century, is fake.

Researchers in Germany have chanced upon a rare early 16th century map of America by the cartographer who named the continent.

A newly declassified document has named Washington, DC as the first US city to be destroyed in a nuclear war - and a viral map shows the parts of the US most likely to be hit in the event of a ...

Our conventions as map readers and makers have converged over time to a north-up default. What happens when that convention ...

What this map makes clear is that megaregions usually expand across multiple states, and that there are far more plausible ways to divide the country into 50 sections than the arbitrary borders of ...

The map seemed to be an unbelievable find, an unknown fifth original of the rarest of documents, a vision of the world, circa 1507, by famed German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller. It features ...

This map, created by Dustin Cable at University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, is the most comprehensive representation of racial distribution in America ever made. Here ...