Unlike the standard map of the world, designed in the 1500s, ... The map is so proportionally accurate that you can fold it up into a three-dimensional globe. AuthaGraph.

The oldest known globe to represent the New World has been discovered, researchers say. Dated to the early 1500s, the globe was likely crafted in Florence, Italy, from the lower halves of two ...

A recently discovered globe from the early 1500s, carved onto ostrich eggs, may be the oldest globe of the New World ever identified, experts say. Latin inscriptions dot its surface, and two small ...