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Mashaal Masha
Feb 03, 2024
When the Vinland Map, a map of the world purported to date to the mid-1400s, surfaced in 1957, some scholars believed it demonstrated that European knowledge of the eastern coast of present-day North America predated Christopher Columbus's 1492 arrival. In 2021, a team including conservators Marie-France Lemay and Paula Zyats and materials scientist Aniko Bezur performed an extensive analysis of the map and the ink used. They found that the ink contains titanium dioxide, a compound that was first introduced in ink manufacturing in the early 1900s. Therefore, the team concluded that ________
Which choice most logically completes the text?
Difficulty: Medium
A:
mid-1400s Europeans could not have known about the eastern coast of present-day North America.
B:
the Vinland Map could not have been drawn by mid-1400s mapmakers.
C:
mapmakers must have used titanium compounds in their ink in the 1400s.
D:
there isn't enough information to determine when the ink was created.
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