Scientists studying a puzzling hot zone beneath America, called the North Atlantic Anomaly, have proposed a mantle wave ...

Experts from Yale University say a famous map believed by some to be the earliest European depiction of North America is a fake after decades of debate over its authenticity. The Vinland Map was ...

The map, supposedly dating back to the 15th century, was a big deal because it added weight to the claim that Vikings landed in North America before Christopher Columbus.

Here we go again. A Danish art conservator claims that the controversial Vinland Map of America, published prior to Christopher Columbus's landfall, may not be a forgery after all. "We have so far ...

In the long term, the map could inspire and inform modeling efforts aimed at better understanding North America's geologic past, as well as the continent's present day tectonic intricacies ...

John Mitchell's famous map of North America stands as an archetype of the official publication of maps in eighteenth-century Britain. It was, however, the product of a special effort by the Earl of ...