Is This The Oldest Map of North America?

Posted by timothy on Monday July 29, 2002 @10:55AM from the christopher-who dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "Scientists from the University of Arizona, the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the Smithsonian Institution have used carbon-dating technology to determine the age of a controversial parchment that might be the first-ever map of North America." Update: 07/30 03:04 GMT by T : Bill Reardon writes: "Thought you might like to know there's another story running via the AP on the map. New study says Yale University's Vinland map is a forgery. Poor Yale. First hacked by Princeton, now their map is a forgery."

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Old trick by PD · 2002-07-29 11:16 · Score: 2, Interesting

Find a very old piece of paper. Write something on it. When they date the paper, they'll think the writing on it was just as old.

Fools some of the people some of the time...

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