Teen points out inaccurate map to NYC's Met museum
Thursday, May 3, 2012
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A Connecticut teenager says workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City didn't believe him when he pointed out an inaccuracy with a map on display showing the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century.
But 13-year-old Benjamin Lerman Coady of West Hartford knew he was right. The seventh-grader had just studied the empire in school before going to the museum last summer.
The Hartford Courant reports (http://cour.at/IGLyXi) museum officials acknowledged earlier this year that Benjamin was indeed right. The map was supposed to show the empire at its largest, but Spain and part of Africa were missing -- just as Benjamin had said.
Museum officials invited him back and gave him a sneak preview of a new exhibit.
The museum's still working on fixing its map error.
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