{"id":5295,"date":"2013-03-05T20:04:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5295"},"modified":"2013-03-05T20:06:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T03:06:24","slug":"archaeologists-find-secret-to-norse-sunstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5295","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists Find Secret to Norse Sunstone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This might be one of those “But we already knew that!<\/a>” deals, but French archaeologists think that they have an actual example in hand of a “sunstone,” said to be used by the Norse to navigate in cloudy weather.<\/p>\n

This one, however, comes from a Tudor-era shipwreck. <\/a>Same principle though.<\/p>\n

(LDS historians and scholars, this is not about you<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This might be one of those “But we already knew that!” deals, but French archaeologists think that they have an actual example in hand of a “sunstone,” said to be used by the Norse to navigate in cloudy weather. This one, however, comes from a Tudor-era shipwreck. Same principle though. 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