LONDON – A nearly 500-year-old map from the first set to identify the New World (search) as "America" and depict the Pacific Ocean was sold Wednesday for a record $1 million, an auction house said.

The mystery of Roanoke’s “lost colony” has survived for more than four centuries, but a faint symbol on a fragile Elizabethan map is now giving archaeologists their clearest lead yet. A tiny, hidden ...

The 510-year-old map is the first to name America. A world map in the form of a set of gores for a terrestrial globe, from 1507 by cartographer Martin Waldseemueller is displayed at Christie's auction ...

I knew this adventure with Kim Haas wasn’t ordinary the moment we climbed onto a motorcycle-powered wooden train cart in ...

U.S. Google Maps results for "Gulf of Mexico," automatically changed to "Gulf of America" and showing the location's label as "Gulf of America." Credit: Mashable screenshot / Google Late last month, ...

GENEVA — Centuries before it became a continent or country synonymous with wealth, power, freedom or democracy, "America" was coined by a Renaissance cartographer as the catchall designation for a ...

A reader sends a link to these fascinating maps that appeared on Andrew Sullivan’s site today. I highly recommend you go see them. Andrew posts them under the title “The South Vs. Social Mobility.” ...