Pre-Columbian America

<p><span class="deck"> Magnificent Central American ruins, overgrown by the thickening jungle, testify to a sophisticated culture already ancient when Columbus sailed</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Was Columbus motivated by Norse discoveries, concealed over the centuries in misinterpreted maps?</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">This nautical chart, lost for five centuries, gives evidence that Portuguese captains had found the New World by 1424</span></p>