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.

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ANN ARBOR, MI — It was the late University of Michigan professor Wilbert Hinsdale who compiled much of what is known about where Native Americans lived and traveled in the Ann Arbor area before white ...

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 ...