and a choice selection of original texts and maps dating from the period of first contact between the New World and the Old. Finally you arrive at an inner sanctum, and there, reunited with the ...

A 5,000-year-old map that some claim outlines the American ... Theories about contact between Old World and New World civilizations aren’t new. Researchers have long pointed out architectural ...

Last spring, a 23-year-old woman was driving her car through ... As sea trade increased, maps of the New World became better, at least the seacoasts and major rivers, places the beaver trade ...

Both maps reveal the great challenge the New World presented to mapmakers, who were still relying on centuries-old cartographic traditions. Wind Rose detail from the “Portolan Atlas of the World ...