LONDON – A nearly 500-year-old map from the first set to identify the New World (search) as "America" and depict the Pacific Ocean was sold Wednesday for a record $1 million, an auction house said.

The mystery of Roanoke’s “lost colony” has survived for more than four centuries, but a faint symbol on a fragile Elizabethan map is now giving archaeologists their clearest lead yet. A tiny, hidden ...

The 510-year-old map is the first to name America. A world map in the form of a set of gores for a terrestrial globe, from 1507 by cartographer Martin Waldseemueller is displayed at Christie's auction ...

U.S. Google Maps results for "Gulf of Mexico," automatically changed to "Gulf of America" and showing the location's label as "Gulf of America." Credit: Mashable screenshot / Google Late last month, ...

GENEVA — Centuries before it became a continent or country synonymous with wealth, power, freedom or democracy, "America" was coined by a Renaissance cartographer as the catchall designation for a ...