Middle Ages Solar Compasses May Have Guided Viking Sailors
Throughout their prime, the Vikings mastered the seas and went on to make wide-spanning trips by boat. How precisely did they understand where they were going? A current research study, concentrated on a set of middle ages stone disks discovered in Ukraine, supports the belief that Viking sailors utilized solar compasses to browse and might have handed down this understanding to other populations in Europe.The appraisal of the 8 stone disks was included in a December 2024 paper released in Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, a Polish archeological journal. The research study's authors compete that a few of the disks show crucial functions that would have utilized the sun to run as a compass, sharing resemblances with other Viking artifacts stemming from Greenland and Poland.Determining the Mediev...