Scholars have questioned the authenticity of a purported 15th-century map housed in Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library since it was first unveiled to the public in 1965. About ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time in the controversial saga of the famous Vinland Map, scientists say they have shown with certainty that the supposed relic is actually a 20th-century forgery. The findings are ...

Recent conclusions that the storied Vinland Map is merely a clever forgery are based on a flawed understanding of the evidence, according to a scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Results from ...

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 ...

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 ...