New Delhi: Member states of the African Union, on 15 August, signed a petition for the world to ‘reject’ the Mercator map projection and accept a more equitable projection that “more accurately ...

The discovery suggested Norsemen were the first to reach North America, well ahead of Columbus. The authenticity of the map has been debated for decades. A new analysis concludes the map is a fraud.

An exhaustive analysis of the controversial Vinland Map has shown it to be a 20th-century forgery. “The Vinland Map is a fake,” Raymond Clemens, curator at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book Library ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- You have a world atlas on your desk. With a few mouse clicks, you can print out door-to-door directions via the Internet. Then there's the GPS device mounted on your car's windshield.