... View of the famous Bronze Age ancient map of the Stars... the world’s earliest known concrete representation of astronomical phenomena... if you're a fan of the universe and astronomy, you need to see this incredible Nebra Sky Disk... in 2013, the Sky Disk was included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register and termed “one of the most important archaeological finds of the 20th century.”... the original Nebra Disk can be found at the Halle State Museum of Prehistory... you can see the museum
HERE... and as always with a nice special First Day postmark... Thanks Dustin!【ツ】
Photo: Juraj Lipták
Four years after its discovery, the Nebra Sky Disc was recovered from the black market during a raid in Switzerland. The looters who found it told authorities it came from a hilltop dig near the German town of Nebra, and was unearthed alongside other Bronze Age artifacts.
The bronze disc (dating 1600BCE) has a diameter of 32cm and weighs around 2 kg. It is patinated blue-green and embossed with gold leaf symbols which appear to represent a crescent moon, the sun (or perhaps a full moon), stars, a curved gold band, interpreted as a sun boat, and a further gold band on the edge of the disk which probably represent one of the horizons (another gold band on the opposite side is missing).
Celestial Events – Thunderstorms & Super Cells
(Issued 01-07-2021)
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