{"id":1785507,"date":"2018-04-30T11:43:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T15:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785507"},"modified":"2018-04-30T11:50:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T15:50:47","slug":"re-analyzing-the-vinland-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/04\/re-analyzing-the-vinland-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Analyzing the Vinland Map"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Vinland Map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The general consensus is that the Vinland Map<\/a> is a modern forgery, not a pre-Columbian 15th-century map showing Norse explorations of North America. That doesn’t seem to stop Yale University from continuing to study the map, which is held in Yale’s\u00a0Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The map is being subjected to a battery of non-destructive tests<\/a> to provide better and more precise physical data about its parchment and ink. The results will be published in a forthcoming book edited by\u00a0Raymond Clemens, who for the record does not believe the map is authentic. (Neither do I, for what it’s worth.)\u00a0[GeoLounge<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n

The Vinland Map is also being put on display for the first time in half a century. It’ll be at the Mystic Seaport’s R. J. Schaefer Gallery<\/a> in Mystic, CT from 19 May to 30 September.<\/p>\n

The definitive book on the Vinland Map, though it may have been overtaken by later investigations and claims, is Kristin A. Seaver’s\u00a0Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map<\/em><\/a> (Stanford University Press, 2004).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The general consensus is that the Vinland Map is a modern forgery, not a pre-Columbian 15th-century map showing Norse explorations of North America. 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