Viking Sunstone Accurate As A Magnetic Compass! | Expedition Unknown

[@MrHubbmuscle]

Josh Gates and Don Wildman. Two of the names I look for when watching anything. Because anything they touch is good!

[@Infantryvet156th]

Without a doubt they used it as a navigation tool. Because my family here in Louisiana found a prehistoric stone sun dial made of what looks like brown jasper. Along with a penguin effigy and archaic atlatl spear points. If these peoples responsible for these prehistoric artifacts had already discovered the sun dial. I'd bet my life they used this sun stone as a navigation tool. That's obvious considering these other findings across the world which predate the viking era. People were alot more intelligent than what is taught back then. Sometimes I question if its modern peoples who are lacking intelligence.

[@ShalenaMarie]

We definitely are dumbed down, especially the English language compared to other languages. Also, a lot of people don't seek knowledge but the ones that seek are blocked, there's so much confusion in this world because of sin and greed, the hidden information is extremely powerful❤ the end of this cycle is almost over, love others as you would yourself, and grace unto you that your sins were paid for by Jesus on the cross

[@Saccitykid]

Amazing old piece of technology lost in time. Awesome find.

[@markbirchette8740]

I remember this episode...Expedition Unknown was a great series.

[@That_Guy_Butler]

New episodes are still made.

[@cv507]

hätchett like Flänkce... and ^??^ indjänce ^^

[@slamhead]

How do you orient the shadow stick on the twilight board to start? It must be calibrated to a certain latitude right?

[@swwsociety1877]

I saw this stone referred to in a Viking film & as I use natural crystals a lot, & love them I googled to see if this was true. Your video came up & low & behold it is. Great work everyone, I loved seeing this & the shadow compass in action

[@psocretes8183]

If you talk to a (sailing) navigator he might well tell you that when the Vickings explored westwards discovering Icland, Greenland and Nova Scotia all those places are on the same latitude. All that is reruired is a staff of up tp 2 meters/yards long. You hold it out at arms length mark the horizon and mark where the Pole Star is and that will take you to all these places on the same latitude. There was a guy called Tim Severin and he sailed to America in a replica leather boat known as the Brendan Voyage after a St Brendan who did it in c. 484 - c. 577. It's on KZbin search: The Brendan Voyage 1. The first Viking raides started in AD 793, two hundred years before the Vikings.

[@andrewlerdard-dickson5201]

The First Vikingr raid's West was actually recorded by the monks in the year 789

[@branni6538]

It works but not much use in daylight or cloudy weather bud. Thanks for the st Brendan heads up. I watched the crossing video yesterday and purchased the book today. Fascinating stuff!

[@ericneiman5556]

So cool this was found to actually work

[@TheRubenGalvan]

I know there are others who agree with me. The more I watch shows like this one, I sometimes wish we could go back to Viking times, and still know what we know.

[@oscarinacan]

Is go back further and see how some specific stones were placed. The only one i can name off the top of my head. It's the one above the kings tomb in one of the pyramids in Egypt. I just heard about it the other day and the video said it's the key rock to everything and was insanely hard to place. Others include some of those ones in those walls of massive rock of all sizes put together so perfect it didn't need mortar and you couldn't fit a sheet of paper through any of it. So prefect and advanced we couldn't do it today. Anyone else hear about the hypothesis that rocks were levitated and placed using harmonics? Pretty badass. But, whatever they used was badass. Just to see what tools/ method to place these unreal works.

[@davidcooke8005]

Back in high school I knew a girl who always knew which way was north. We tested her. Took her her out onto a flat street, at night, with no lights around and put a blindfold on her. Two of us walked in circles around her, talking gibberish, to throw off her auditory clues, and she was turned in place to disorient her. Then we told her to point north and without hesitation, she did. I had a compass, she was entirely correct. I have no explanation for it, but she aced the test I created so I can't deny it. Birds know. And somehow Mary knew. Too bad she wasn't a Viking, would have saved them a lot of trouble mucking around with sunstones. She was a Deadhead, saw hundreds of shows, Maybe all the acid had something to do with it.

[@cv507]

´€$p ´bitchess asF..? like one person talking with you and the other? far away and knows all like the First. : ?

[@ChuckHaney]

6:13 Who else had only one eye?

[@knightstemplar6243]

There was an article some years ago that they found a Viking longship in Scotland and onboard they found artifacts and big surprise coffee beans 🫘. Originated from Columbia South America

[@mansoor8228]

Pretty nice one

[@mexx2602]

This does not make sense since they did not explain why they oriented the twilight board the way they did.

[@the1_MatthiasGray]

'They would use a shield divided into four, and thereby the stone would shine unto them. They would use of the moon at night to guide them.'

[@billyrhea3057]

Why is this show not still on??

[@laqueefasteinberg4981]

Will regular calcite work for this?

[@theodorepatton887]

Need more updates,,, Gimme more !

[@Mudguaard]

Great show, very entertaining, great subjects, anyhow I watched you enter a mine and some time later deep in the earth you find a piece. OK,,,, who dug the mine to start with? Clear quartz, seems to have been used for lots of interesting stuff. The crystal skulls just to mention one biggy. I believe the Scandinavian people had to travel south due to the volcano induced cold spell around 560 or so. When they returned they turned to the sea. I believe, So I wonder how much they learned while in Mainland Europe.

[@sissyroyse5565]

I love this show

[@lorilewis4447]

My ancestors were very smart! 🥰

[@Man_fay_the_Bru]

I’m Scottish & there’s a very very good chance your relatives raped& pillaged my wee Scottish town. Hiya pal😁

[@VikingNorway-pb5tm829]

Yes! :)

[@mityahubenkeshet]

tbh, everyone's ancestors were smart. Every culture on earth has come up with unique things that the others didn't.

[@randylarkin1230]

I have found a Sunstone here in Eastern Oregon

[@gregglyell1601]

Josh this stone is used in the Dichroscope in gemology. Read about it.

[@bonblue4993]

The stone is not a sunstone. It is a calcite crystal called Iceland Spar.

[@JexroShadark]

I want to buy one just like the one used in the video

[@Ben-hv4pr]

Yeah Josh how did the vikings build ships that big and fast and Lanx Aux Meadows was found in 1975 i think 😊😊

[@codys925914]

Why does Josh say maybe they reached North America when it's been proven for decades that they landed in or around L'anse Aux Meadow and made a settlement there?

[@emmanuelstamatakis8218]

Sorry Columbus sorry Vikings there’s proof in the Mississippi and Tennessee area rivers any museum you check in that area you will find out the Minoans were there first and there’s proof real proof. Great show really enjoyed it all awesome stuff fascinating. Carbon dating proves they were there 2500 BC not AD BC Reminds me of a great band named AC/DC of course the island of Crete was destroyed by the fourth largest volcano interruption 10,000 years Santorini Greek island 90 miles from Craig Lake Florida and Cuba

[@johnc7110]

Bravo never knew this I live hours from the Mississippi River and have visited the Minoan site in Crete intelligent creative advanced people in every way unfortunate for the explosion of the volcano have visited Santorini also stunning thank you for info I will learn more

[@emmanuelstamatakis8218]

@@johnc7110 Yeah I think the video to see here is I’ll give you more detail is Columbus didn’t discover America the Minoans discovered America.Did he know who those artifacts belong to they had them hidden in the museums for years thinking that they were Egyptian and then that they were Simic just didn’t know until one guy look at them about 30 40 years ago and said these. Are you Minoan.

[@Alan_AB]

It would never be accurate as a magnetic compass, given that the crystal is not magnetic. However it would be useful as a solar compass, ie using the sun, refraction and shadow.

[@heavenbound9144]

And who taught the Vikings how to use Crystal's.. I Truly Believe it was the Offspring of the fallen Angels or the Fallen Angels themselves.. in the Book of Enoch it talks about how the Fallen Angels showed man secrets like how to use the metals of the earth and the beautifying of the eye lids witg makeup for women ect..

[@ZeroPointZap]

Wow

[@donquijote7463]

NEVER BRING THIS STONE TO PAWN STARS.

[@user-cs3zs6jn1d]

Do you mind if I call in an expert?. Well the expert said it was plastic,so the best I can do is 8 bucks

[@VikingNorway-pb5tm829]

We know! ;) History books folks! Or you read just Donald?

[@Ridgerunner49]

How does it go 100 monkeys with 100 typewriters will create all the great works given enough time

[@Wintermute909]

Rare? They're $5 in any crystal shop.

[@JB-rt4mx]

Lies...Lord Bottomham was using floating leafs to travel to Boston and bring molasses to Spain..

[@luishumbertorojascortes4002]

Subtitulos please...😔

[@2HighNoon]

Umm calcite is not a sunstone. Sunstones are feldspars.

[@romanmay2867]

different stone, there is a stone called “sunstone” but the calcite the vikings would use in this context are called sunstones or a sunstone

[@2HighNoon]

@@romanmay2867 Ahh. They are very interesting. I’d like to do some experiments building one.

[@jasondavis8800]

I love ya Josh but the island behind you and time of day would have told you where the sun is you cheated lol

[@wolfrv695]

👍🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@abztrakt7071]

Josh gets pretty excited about stuff, bet he has a pack of sedatives on every adventure lol, seriously I'm interested in this stuff aswell 😁 If I had powerful sedative id stick one in my brothers drink 😉

[@Unknown_Ooh]

As a mariner there is zero chance of that viking ship in the museum successfully navigating across any ocean

[@44spangle]

And yet they did.

[@redwolf7929]

I thought that ship was ceremonial as the sides are so low to the water

[@Bungiman]

Weird they've built one and sailed it across the Atlantic so I call bullshit on your statement

[@VikingNorway-pb5tm829]

@@Bungiman I do too :) He try to be cool... and that means dumb!