Articles tagged with: Archaeology
Vasa’s Curious Imbalance
The warship survived the first blast of wind it encountered on its maiden voyage in Stockholm Harbor. But the second gust did it in. The sinking of Vasa, on August 10, 1628, took place nowhere …
Vikings Navigated With Translucent Crystals?
In some Icelandic sagas—embellished stories of Viking life—sailors relied on so-called sunstones to locate the sun’s position and steer their ships on cloudy days.
The stone would’ve worked by detecting a property of sunlight called polarization.
Polarization …
Modern Tools Reveal World War I Tunneling Tricks
On the battlefields of the Somme, history and geology meld. Beneath the chalky earth, men carved messages, memorials and poems into the walls of tunnels that were dug almost a century ago during the First …
NASA to Launch Guidelines to Protect Lunar Artifacts
This story appeared in Science Magazine [pdf] and online [html].
NASA is unlikely to be the operator of the next spacecraft to land on the moon, but the U.S. space agency is considering sending along some …
