The Vinland Map, once believed to be the earliest cartographic depiction of the New World, has been proven to be a modern forgery, confirming long-held suspicions. A team of conservators and ...

Yale University says the decades-old debate over the authenticity of its controversial Vinland Map has been settled: It's a fake. The map was donated to the school in 1965, presented as a purported ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yale University's Vinland Map, which has stirred up its share of controversy over claims it was the earliest depiction of the New ...

Yale University, which has had the map since the 1960s, confirmed this month what some have been arguing for decades. A map of America touted as being one of the oldest on record has turned out to be ...

Doubts crept in around Greenland, which looked so good it was frankly suspicious, and questions soon spread all over the map: about the wormholes, the handwriting and, most important, the weirdly ...

When it surfaced in 1957, it was too good to be true: a purported 15th-century world map depicting an island to the far west labeled Vinilandia Insula -- the fabled Vinland -- proof positive, it ...

Yale University's Vinland Map, which has stirred up its share of controversy over claims it was the earliest depiction of the New World, is a fake, the school said. A team of conservators and ...

A map of America touted as being one of the oldest on record has turned out to be a convincing forgery, according to new studies. For decades, many believed that the Vinland Map was an important ...