Lesson No. 1: Viking warriors didn’t wear horned helmets. “Viking helmets with horns date to the end of the 19th century, with Wagner operas,” says Nicholas Bell, senior vice pres… ...

An exhaustive analysis of the controversial Vinland Map has shown it to be a 20th-century forgery. “The Vinland Map is a fake,” Raymond Clemens, curator at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare ...

The Forger's Inspiration Early maps and tales likely influenced the Vinland Map's author. Who Were the Vikings? William Fitzhugh reveals what drove the Vikings. The Map in Question Is it authentic ...

Viking Map of North America Identified as 20th-Century Forgery New technical analysis dates Yale’s Vinland Map to the 1920s or later, not the 1440s as previously suggested ...

A map of America touted as being one of the oldest on record has turned out to be a convincing forgery, according to new studies. For decades, many believed that the Vinland Map was an important ...

The map that unleashed a fury NOVA: When Yale first publicized the Vinland Map in 1965, was it a surprise to most Norse scholars?

Unravel the mystery of the Vinland Map—a controversial document that claimed Vikings arrived in North America before Columbus. Discover the truth now.

For decades, researchers at Yale and elsewhere have questioned the authenticity of a map that seemed to reflect Viking travels to North America. The school now says the case is closed.

Did the Vikings discover the New World before Christopher Columbus? Tonight, we learn about a map that surfaced mysteriously in the 1950s and appears to depict the east coast of America as an ...

It was hailed as the first proof of Viking exploration to the America and the earliest known map of the New World. Moreover, the Vinland Map was used by some to claim that the Vikings had ...

If the map were genuine, it would pre-date the feted voyage of Christopher Columbus by some years - and would possibly have relied instead on the experiences of Viking explorers who may well have ...

Yale University says the decades-old debate over the authenticity of its controversial Vinland Map has been settled: It's a fake. The map was donated to the school in 1965, presented as a ...