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Project Camelot interviews Klaus Dona, spiritual archaeologist. Unsolved Mysteries. Visby lenses. One of the Visby lenses in a silver setting It was reported by Otto Ahlström in 1950 that most have aspheric surfaces,[2] suggesting that knowledge of optical design had been much further developed in the Middle Ages than previously assumed. Their aberration curve is very similar to modern aspheric lenses as used in spectacles.[1] Description[edit] Asperic lens as measured by Karl-Heinz Wilms The lenses are bi-aspheric and have excellent imaging properties. The best example of the lenses measures 50 mm (2.0 in) in diameter and has a thickness of 30 mm (1.2 in) at its centre, with an angular resolution of 25–30 μm. The Visby lenses provide evidence that sophisticated lens-making techniques were being used by craftsmen over 1,000 years ago, at a time when researchers had only just begun to explore the laws of refraction. Proposed uses[edit] Various uses have been proposed for the lenses.

See also[edit] Nimrud lens Notes[edit] External links[edit] Did the Vikings make a telescope? By BBC News Online science editor Dr David Whitehouse The Vikings could have been using a telescope hundreds of years before Dutch spectacle makers supposedly invented the device in the late 16th century. This remarkable possibility has emerged from a study of sophisticated lenses just recognised from a Viking site on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea.

They were initially thought to be merely ornaments. "It seems that the elliptical lens design was invented much earlier that we thought and then the knowledge was lost," says Dr Olaf Schmidt, of Aalen University in Germany. The late Dr Karl-Heinz Wilms first heard of the so-called "Visby" lens in 1990 when he was searching for exhibits for a Munich museum. But it was not until 1997 that a team of three scientists went to Gotland to take a close look at what were actually 10 lenses locked away in the storeroom of a local museum. Perfect shape One of the team, Dr Olaf Schmidt, told BBC News Online: "I was excited, of course. The visby lenses. [Optom Vis Sci. 1999] - PubMed result. Lost city 'could rewrite history' By BBC News Online's Tom Housden.

Lost city 'could rewrite history'

Lost city found off Indian coast. An ancient underwater city has been found off the coast of south-eastern India.

Lost city found off Indian coast

Divers from India and England made the discovery based on the statements of local fishermen and the old Indian legend of the Seven Pagodas. The ruins, which are off the coast of Mahabalipuram, cover many square kilometres. A further expedition to the region is now being arranged which will take place at the beginning of 2003. 'International significance' The discovery was made on 1 April by a joint team of divers from the Indian National Institute of Oceanography and the Scientific Exploration Society based in Dorset, UK. Expedition leader Monty Halls said: "Our divers were presented with a series of structures that clearly showed man-made attributes.

"The scale of the site appears to be extremely extensive, with 50 dives conducted over a three-day period covering only a small area of the overall ruin field. During the expedition to the site, divers came across structures believed to be man-made. Jealous Gods. What are the new developments after discovering the Sunken city. Dvaraka Giant Underwater City found in India Video. Ancient Underwater City Found Off India: Discovery in Bay of Cam. Now, it was announced in January, a civilization has been uncovered that would have appeared just as ancient to the people who built the pyramids as the pyramids seem to us.

Ancient Underwater City Found Off India: Discovery in Bay of Cam

According to marine scientists in India, archaeological remains of this lost city have been discovered 36 metres (120 feet) underwater in the Gulf of Cambay off the western coast of India. And carbon dating says that they are 9,500 years old. This news completely contradicts the position of most Western historians and archaeologists, who (because it did not fit their theories) have always rejected, ignored, or suppressed evidence of an older view of mankind's existence on planet Earth.

Human civilization is now provably much more ancient than many have believed. According to the BBC's Tom Housden, reporting on the Cambay find: Several reports confirm this estimate. Sunken City off India Coast - 7500 B.C. This article on the incredibly ancient sunken city recently found off the gulf of Cambay in India was published through courtesy of the author Linda Moulton Howe of www.earthfiles.com , an excellent site where this article and many others on relative topics can be found.

Sunken City off India Coast - 7500 B.C.

Sunken City Off India Coast -7500 B. C.? Lost / submerged city of dwarka. Ancient civilization discovered in Amazon. Lost Amazonian civilization under Brazilian rainforest (Photo: Antiquity) A fascinating find has come from the tragic loss of Brazilian rainforest, making some lemonade out of that lemon.

Ancient civilization discovered in Amazon

Of course, what this discovery of a long lost Amazonian civilization means is that there have been other times when the forest was likewise not there, giving us hope that currently devastated areas can be regrown as well. What this find also means is that those intrepid explorers of earlier times, such as Colonel P.H. Fawcett and many others, were correct in believing the natives, whose stories beginning centuries ago described not just one but many civilizations or cities lost in the massive rainforest as well as elsewhere in remote, overgrown parts of South America.