"Sensational" Breaking News, Fake Map is shown to be Fake

Newspapers are this week full of the story that scientific analysis proves the so-called Vinland Map" is a forgery.

Yale conservators and conservation scientists have found that the map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink.

"once hailed" that is in 1965 by the American institution that paid a lot of money to buy it, despite its unclear origins somewhere in Europe (no export licence was ever produced I believe). They are very surprised to find that the tests done on the ink in the 1970s by Walter McCrone and again in the 1980s that showed conclusively that it was a fake using modern ink... were correct. The map has again found to have been drawn with modern ink so now, too, it is conclusively a fake. It seems to me that the world's divided here. On this side of the Atlantic we thought the question of its inauthenicity was settled by the mid '80s (excluding Real-Atlantis and Alien Visitations crazies who will continue to believe the map is real because it supports their conspiracy theories about a 'coverup'). On the far side of the Atlantic is a strange land full of people flattered that a squiggly line on that map seems to show their homeland and to whom the revelation that it's not a real ancient map seems "news" in 2021.