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 ...

If you like looking at old maps, then you'll love a new exhibition that's recently opened in the City of London, showing a range of maps dating from the 15th century onwards.

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 ...

With this information, scientists can map the topography of the land. To learn more about a 15th-century city known as ...