But "new world" didn't necessarily mean then what ... in southern Germany, included a rare 15th-century map that depicted Greenland in an unusual way. He had to travel only some 50 miles to ...

“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 ...

Schokland was a peninsula that by the 15th century had become an island ... Also located outside the present island, but within the boundaries of the World Heritage property, are more than 160 ...