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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Re:"might be the first-ever map of North America" by h3ndr1k · 2002-07-30 01:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Who cares about North America. It's intersting though how accurate the mediterranian is. Let's face it ... if Columbus hadn't been around, Gee Dubbya wouldn't be here now, and we would all live in peace.