On the map, the unexplored continent of North America is called “Parias," while the newly christened America describes the South American coast all the way down to the present-day port of ...

Bridge Between North and South America Was Guarded by Daunting Beasts 10,000 Years Ago, Archaeologists Find Evidence. More than 10,000 years ago, the landscapes of what is now Mexico were teeming ...

Ad Policy. The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America, 1658. (GraphicaArtis / Getty Images) A typical way of telling the history of the United States is to frame it ...

Controversial 22,000-year-old stone tools are one of the latest discoveries. ... it meant humans had to have traveled from North America to South America well before 13,000 years ago.

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John ...