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Ancient Maltese seafarers may have navigated by stars
Key Takeaways
- Archaeologists say Malta’s first settlers likely needed celestial navigation to cross from Sicily.
- Part of the roughly 97-kilometer journey would have taken voyagers out of sight of land.
- The idea could help connect practical seafaring knowledge with later debates over megalithic alignments and early cosmology.
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DT Editorial Team··via phys.org