'Earliest navigation tool' found in a shipwreck
(MENAFN) An antique dug out from a shipwreck on the Omani coast was identified to be the most ancient example of a navigational tool.
According to marine archaeologists, it is an astrolabe, a tool marines used to measure the altitude of Sun when they travel, which is believed to be from 1495-1500.
David Mearns from Blue Water Recovery said: "It was like nothing else we had seen and I immediately knew it was something very important because you could see it had these two emblems on it."
In general, astrolabes are rare, and this only the 108th to be confirmed classified, and also the earliest known example by thousands of years.
According to marine archaeologists, it is an astrolabe, a tool marines used to measure the altitude of Sun when they travel, which is believed to be from 1495-1500.
David Mearns from Blue Water Recovery said: "It was like nothing else we had seen and I immediately knew it was something very important because you could see it had these two emblems on it."
In general, astrolabes are rare, and this only the 108th to be confirmed classified, and also the earliest known example by thousands of years.
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