“It’s a missing link in our understanding of people’s conception of the world,” says Chet Van Duzer, an independent historian who led the analysis of the map, currently held at Yale ...

Both maps reveal the great challenge the New World presented ... AKG/Album The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama ...

Waits were civic minstrels, sometimes known as the Mayor's minstrels, who were employed by many towns in England from the 15th century ... on A History of the World is created by the contributors ...