The study’s authors contend that some of the disks display key features that would have used the sun to operate as a compass, sharing similarities with other Viking artifacts originating from ...

A new study suggests that medieval stone discs found in Ukraine were likely used by Vikings as solar compasses to navigate ...

Scientists recently set out to determine the purpose of eight slate discs discovered in Ukraine that date back 900 years. The ...

"The blue water, smitten by many oars, might be seen foaming far and wide" wrote a medieval monk who watched a Viking ... Vikings had no compass but undoubtedly steered by the sun and stars.

However, a more recent approach proposes that at least some of these discs might have been solar compasses, instruments used by Viking navigators to orient ... determine direction and latitude based ...

“Through measurements and surface analysis, three stone disks exhibit similarities to the Viking sun compasses, with a limited number of examples found in Greenland and the Baltic Sea region ...

The Vikings used a form of compass to navigate. They used shadows cast by the sun to help them determine ... As well as settling in Britain, they established Viking colonies in France, and used ...

"Through measurements and surface analysis, three stone disks exhibit similarities to the Viking sun compasses, with a limited number of examples found in Greenland and the Baltic Sea region," the ...

Mysterious medieval stone disks unearthed in Ukraine were likely used by the Vikings as solar compasses to navigate the seas, a new study says. The eight unique discs, made from the easy-to-process ...