A 5,000-year-old map that some claim outlines ... the claims surrounding the map are igniting debates about what ancient ... and topographical features that resemble North and South America.

A centuries-old copy of a 500-year-old map that christened the New World as “America” has been discovered at a university in Germany.

Ancient map found in Munich 07/03/2012 July 3, 2012. Munich librarians have found a rare 16th century world map that first gave America its name as a continent.

The description: "(I.Chronicles, viii:12.).--'And Lod, with the towns thereof.' Lydda occupies the site of the Old Testament Lod, which is referred to in Ezra, ii:33, and Nehemiah, xi:35. It was an ...