All these annotations are legible on the map, and are relatively easy to decipher for Venetian speakers since the current dialect is not dramatically different from the idiom of the 15th Century.

The map itself is undated, but there are clues it was created in 1491: It quotes a book published that year, and Christopher Columbus may have consulted the map (or a copy) before his great voyage.

A collapsed wall in a 15th-century Portuguese church revealed at least 12 skeletons, sparking archaeological investigations ...

With this information, scientists can map the topography of the land. To learn more about a 15th-century city known as Guiengola, a team led by Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis, a post-doctoral fellow ...