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The Vinland map is claimed to be a 15th-century mappa mundi with unique information about Norse exploration of America. It is very well known because of the publicity campaign which accompanied its revelation to the public as a "genuine" pre-Columbian map in 1965. In addition to showing Africa, Asia and Europe, the map depicts a landmass south-west of Greenland in the Atlantic labelled as Vinland; the map describes this region as having been visited by Europeans in the 11th century. Although it was presented to the world in 1965 with an accompanying scholarly book written by British Museum and Yale University librarians, historians of geography and medieval document specialists began to suspect that it might be a fake as soon as photographs of it became available, and chemical analyses have identified one of the major ink ingredients as a 20th-century artificial pigment. However, individual pieces of evidence continue to be challenged,
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| Webexhibits: The Vinland Map – Experts Webexhibits: The Vinland Map – Experts webexhibits.org/vinland/experts.html? - Web |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory: Scientists Determi... Brookhaven National Laboratory: Scientists Determine Age of New World Map. “Vinland Map” www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2002/bnlpr072902a.htm - Web |
| The Vinland Map, Some "Finer Points" of the Debate... The Vinland Map, Some "Finer Points" of the Debate, J. Huston McCulloch, September 2008 www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/vinland/vinland.htm - Web |
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| "The Viking Deception" "The Viking Deception" www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vinland/ - Web |
| "Vinland Re-read" by Paul Saenger (Newberry Librar... "Vinland Re-read" by Paul Saenger (Newberry Library) www.maphistory.info/saenger.html - Web |
| Review of Kirsten Seaver's book (see Sources) sugg... Review of Kirsten Seaver's book (see Sources) suggesting that the map was created by the German Jesuit cartographical historian Josef Fischer in the 1930s www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a741574814 - Web |
| Another review of Seaver's book. Another review of Seaver's book. muse.jhu.edu/.../37.3shalev.html - Web |
| Skálholt Map Skálholt Map www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/manus/678/eng - Web |
| The Iron Gall Ink Website The Iron Gall Ink Website ink-corrosion.org - Web |
