Sometimes a little modern technology can help turn up an ancient treasure — even if that technology is nothing more than a computer screen and a simple web search. That's what happened to Federica ...
The astrolabe is a rare and highly sophisticated navigational tool. David L. Mearns – Blue Water Recoveries Ltd. In 2014, a team of archaeologists discovered the sunken remains of a 500-year-old ...
March 18 (UPI) --Guinness World Records has verified that a mariner's astrolabe recovered from the wreckage of a sunken Portuguese armada ship is indeed the earliest of its kind. Researchers with the ...