[SunkenCiv]

MAP IS BACK: A Danish researcher suggests that the Vinland Map, possibly the first depiction of North America, is authentic after all, but experts are still not convinced -- YALE UNIVERSITY

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[Sacajaweau]

Anatase didn’t exist in the 15th century??

[Longhair_and_Leather]

I’ve seen other maps from earlier periods, and were amazed how they were able to draw them without overhead views (satellites), but this looks too accurate for that time period.

[Oratam]

I thought it was proven to be a “forgery” made by a priest from some vellum he cut out of an old book and given to a friend as a gift who knew what it was. I think the priest was an antiquarian or historian and his friend a collector. I think the priest just wanted to “try his hand” and, considering the ongoing controversy, he exceeded his ambitions.

[VeniVidiVici]

The map's parchment dates to circa 1434, but scientists say that the underlying yellow-brown ink has a chemical component, anatase, that indicates a 20th-century origin.

So somebody traced over it. Eriksson made it this far. Don't know why a map would be farfetched.

[colorado tanker]

I’m inclined to think it’s bogus, but this Dane is keeping the controversy alive.

[blam]

Maps Of The Ancient Sea Kings

[gitmo]

Pre-Columbian Map of North America Could Be Authentic--Or not

Can't argue with that headline.

[colorado tanker]

You're right it's not a very accurate map. The depiction of Europe is fairly primitive. It's not correct as to Labrador and Newfoundland, either. The upper indentation looks like the water leading to Goose Bay. The lower "finger" looks like the northern peninsula of Newfoundland, where L'anse was IIRC, but if so they hadn't followed the east coast completely around, and didn't know the water between Labrador and Newfoundland was not enclosed.

But the real problem with the map a failure to have a hysterical label for Greenland warning the glaciers are melting and we're all gonna die if we don't raise taxes. :-))

[curmudgeonII]

If the map is authentic, why is Greenland shown as an island? [A fact not known until hundreds of years after Columbus.]