Chemical detective work proves that the Vinland map is a forgery.(Commentary)(Editorials)(Letters)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: April 4, 1996 | Copyright information

The Scripps Howard article that deals with Yale University's "resurrection" of the ill-famed Vinland map, while accurate, is very misleading ("Yale says no fake, unfolds medieval map again," Nation, March 27).

The article states that in the early 1970s, Walter McCrone found tiny particles of ink that contained "a type of titanium that, rare in nature, wasn't sold as a pigment until the 1920s." The "type of titanium" that Mr. McCrone found was the mineral anatase. It was the presence on the Vinland map of rounded, well-crystallized anatase crystals free of natural clay ...

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