The map seemed to be an unbelievable find, an unknown fifth original of the rarest of documents, a vision of the world, circa 1507, by famed German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller.

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This 500-year old map is one of the first to show the new world as a distinct continent. Photo: DPA/LMU Tucked away in a geometry book at the Munich University Library, researchers found a 500 ...

A centuries-old copy of a 500-year-old map that christened the New World as “America” has been discovered at a university in Germany.