Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

The Vikings settled Greenland during a period of exceptional ... His company has dozens of employees prospecting the site right now. But there is a major obstacle to developing it: The ore is ...

A Viking called Erik the Red discovered Greenland. It was Erick’s son, Leif Erikson, who sailed even further west and became the first European to visit the Americas. Leif had heard stories of ...

As US author Jared Diamond notes in his acclaimed 2005 bestseller, Collapse, Greenland’s history is marked by the notorious disappearance of its Viking Norse settlers, who lived on the island ...

Greenland’s first tourists were Vikings. And the first tour leader was ... a UNESCO World Heritage Site that preserves the remains of a farming colony established in the 10 th century by Erik ...

While similar modern devices do work successfully (as seen in the NOVA program "The Vikings"), many have questioned if the Greenland disc was actually used in this way. It is less than three ...

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 ...