Others also believe the disk represents astronomical information fixed to a specific geographic latitude. Pernicka and his colleagues believe the arcs represent a map of the moving sunset throughout the year. The arcs on either side of the disk represents the extent of the sunsets at different points of the year as seen from Mittelburg Hill, which is sometimes referred to as the “ German Stonehenge.” On top of it, the Sun sets behind the Brocken Mountain during summer solstice, then sets during the first of May behind the Kulpenburg, the highest hill of the Kyffhauser range. In this interpretation, the central circle represents the Sun. Some have said that the disk represents a kind of instrument similar to a Sun dial. Dating of the swords and other artifacts found in the area would place the disk at about 1600 B.C. The looters claimed the hoard was found on the Mittelberg Hill in the Saxony-Anhalt region near Leipzig in eastern Germany. The disk changed hands a couple of times over the next two years before the police eventually confiscated it in a raid in 2001. The artifact was initially discovered by looters in 1999, who then sold it to a dealer together with a batch of other artifacts including bronze swords. “It’s an absolutely unique artifact, but the secret is not solved yet,” says archeologist Rupert Gebhard, director of the Bavarian State Archaeological Collection. The believe it may just be a fanciful depiction of celestial phenomenon. They also question whether the disk represents a map at all. “It displays the world’s earliest known concrete representation of astronomical phenomena.”īut other archaeologists question the provenance of the disk, believing it may not be that old. “The Nebra Sky Disc is one of the most important archaeological finds of the past century,” write a team of researchers led by Ernst Pernicka in a paper published in the journal Archaeologia Austriaca.
The disk has a number of different interpretations, with some people believing it represents the oldest sky map ever found, dating as far back as 1600 B.C.
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Only rather than pepperoni, the millennia-old disk contains inlaid circles and crescents representing stars, the moon and possibly the sun, with a series of stars dotted around them. The circular copper plate is about 12 inches in diameter - about the size of a medium pizza. The Nebra Sky Disk is marvelous looking piece of art, no matter what its intention was.
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