America was put on the map 500 years agoIn 1507, a cartographer came up with a name for the New World — and it stuck By BRADLEY S. KLAPPER , Associated Press April 25, 2007 ...

A centuries-old copy of a 500-year-old map that christened the New World as “America” has been discovered at a university in Germany.

The 15th century Vinland Map, the first known map to show part of America before explorer Christopher Columbus landed on the continent, is almost certainly genuine, a Danish expert said Friday.

Standing before a 17th-century world map in her daily press briefing, Sheinbaum proposed dryly that North America should be renamed "América Mexicana," or "Mexican America," because a founding ...

The so-called oldest map of North America — the Vinland Map — sits in Yale’s Beinecke collection in a slim volume along with a medieval manuscript. The map purports to show groundbreaking conclusions ...