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The Visby lenses indicate that the Vikings

The Visby lenses indicate that the Vikings may have had working elliptical lenses centuries before they were though to have been invented. “But it seems clear that the Vikings did not make the lenses themselves. ‘There are hints that the lenses may have been manufactured in [the ancient empire of] Byzantium or in the region of Eastern Europe.’”