In 15th-century Europe, the apocalypse weighed heavily on the minds of the people. Plagues were rampant. The once-great capital of the Roman empire, Constantinople, had fallen to the Turks.

John Paul Floyd, 43, from Glasgow, says the controversial map that has divided experts since it was uncovered in 1957, was forged and drawn on a 15th Century ... and the British Museum, who ...

A team of conservators and scientists at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, conducted an in-depth analysis of the purported 15th-century map ... The British Museum in London had previously ...

The copy was found in the 15th century and bequeathed ... to Hispania (Spain) and the British Isles, is the only missing part of the masterpiece. All maps have different points of view.