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 map's Latin text notes that Leif Eriksson was together with a companion named Bjarni when he discovered Vinland, a curious detail that Norse scholar Kirsten Seaver says runs counter to the ...

"The Vinland Map is a fake," said Raymond Clemens, curator of early books and manuscripts at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, which houses the map. "There is no reasonable doubt here.

Program Overview for the NOVA program Viking Deception, The: Consider the evidence supporting and refuting the authenticity of the Vinland Map, a document purported to show that the Vikings ...

Paired with a close look at the controversial Vinland Map from Yale University, the exhibit of Viking burial artifacts being shown outside of Sweden for the first time.

For over half a century, scholars have fought over the authenticity of the Vinland Map, which Yale University unveiled to the world in 1965 as evidence of Viking explorations in the western ...

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 ...

When it surfaced in 1957, it was too good to be true: a purported 15th-century world map depicting an island to the far west labeled Vinilandia Insula -- the fabled Vinland -- proof positive, it ...

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 ...