An Austrian collector has found what may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs.

A recently discovered globe from the early 1500s, carved onto ostrich eggs, may be the oldest globe of the New World ever identified, experts say. Latin inscriptions dot its surface, and two small ...

The New World on the ostrich egg globe, which bears three names: Washington Map Society. Aug. 23, 2013, 12:13 PM EDT. By Megan Gannon.