Sophisticated instruments which were to make possible the European voyages of discovery, such as the astrolabe , the quadrant, and good navigational maps, were also developed by Muslims.
The lands you explore in Wukong are beautiful, no doubt, but they're far too big and too crammed with secrets to not give you some sort of navigational help, especially the second and third chapters.
Ultimately the Portuguese monopoly on spices was upended by a Dutch spy, Jan Huygen van Linschoten, who worked as secretary for the bishop of Goa in the 1580s and copied his charts, maps and navigational secrets.
Campbell called it " one of the top archaeological discoveries of the century" . He told Reuters, " we now have a new story to tell of a navigational route that connected the ancient Mediterranean" .
An oblong crystal the size of a cigarette packet was found on a ship next to a pair of dividers, suggesting that it was part of the navigational equipment.
The officials shared space exploration plans and discussed possible exploration cooperation, Earth observation, space science, space weather and civilian navigational satellites.