Study Says Medieval New World Map Is Real [Thank Leif Eriksson]

AP ^ | November 27, 2003 | DIANE SCARPONI

[curmudgeonII]

This map shows Greenland to be an island. Greenland, however, was not known to be an island until several centuries after this map was alleged to have been created.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Greenland, however, was not known to be an island until several centuries after this map was alleged to have been created.

Amazing what you can do with Microsoft Forger these days.

[geopyg]

I like the old map that shows the landmass of Antartica. The map has been around for a long-long time. Only recently (last 40 years?) have we determined what the landmass of Antartica looks like under all the ice.

The new maps of the buried landmass match up quite well with the old map!

[IYAAYAS]

When Columbus discovered the new world, it stayed discovered.

[VOA]

Put men in boats and give them beer, and off they go.

And tell them there's gold and women for the taking over the horizon...
and they'll row right off the edge of the world!

[Mr Rogers]

In an astronomy class, I was taught that the greeks knew the earth was round and had estimated the distance as roughly 25,000 miles (using, of course, whatever units were common to Greeks before Jesus was born).

I was told educated europeans knew this, and they had no interest in sailing west because it was the long way around, and no one knew if there was any land in between.

[Fiddlstix]

Ping

[fish hawk]

I suppose for the same reason that every time they find an old skeleton it's not an Indian but a white guy that got here first. (Kennewick Man)

[CaptRon]

Some scholars have speculated that Columbus could have used the map to find the New World in 1492.

Based on a book I got for Christmas in 1991, this is apparently a pretty common belief in some scholarly circles. Apparently Columbus had expressed some knowledge that couldn't be known otherwise.

[vikingchick]

My impression is that 99.9% of the time when they find an old skeleton in America, they think it's a Native American Indian.

[fish hawk]

I guess you are easily impressed.

[vikingchick]

Well, I have no wish to trade insults with you, so I'll bid you adieu.

[ApplegateRanch]

ROTFLMAO!

After a Custer Park, Rushmore, and Crazy Horse loop the first day, we always take first time visitors to Wall Drug, then back home via the Badlands.

After that, the rest is up to them as to what to see & do.

[blam]

"I suppose for the same reason that every time they find an old skeleton it's not an Indian but a white guy that got here first. (Kennewick Man)"

If it's older than 6,000 years old, that's usually a correct statement. Luzia, a 10,500 year old skeleton found in Brazil is an African. It appears that today's American Indian/Native Americans were the late-comers to the Americas.

[hc87]

Wonderful place, South Dakota. I visited twice on the way to California when I was a teenager. I'm looking forward to taking my kids when they are old enough to appreciate it.

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