The map shows the ports of entry affected by the U.S. Agriculture Department’s announcement and the approximate locations of ...

LONDON - A nearly 500-year-old map from the first set to identify the New World as "America" and depict the Pacific Ocean was sold Wednesday for a record $1 million, an auction house said.

The latest scientific analysis of a disputed map of the medieval New World supports the theory that it was made 50 years before Christopher Columbus set sail. A study last northern summer said the ...