One of the most prettiest and interesting relics of ancient times is the Nebra Sky Disc. This resembles a child's clock, complete with cute looking designs of the heavens but it was an important calendar. It shows stars, moons and the sun made in bright metallic golden yellow, with the cyan blue colour of the sky background.
Found buried in a hill at Nebra in Germany, it's been dated as coming from the Bronze Age. Found buried with the disc were weaponry and jewels, with metals of tin, gold, copper and bronze. After radio carbon dating the artifacts, it seems they were from between 1700 BC to 1500 BC.
More research done on the ancient findings found that the objects were created from different sources. The gold itself comes from the Carpathan Mountains, and other traces of gold and tin within the objects come from River Carnon in England.
Its believed the symbols on the disc represent the crescent moon, the sun and partial eclipse, the Pleiades stars or Seven Sisters, the Summer and Winter solstices, sunrise and sunset, North and South.
For more information on the charming Nebra sky disc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disc
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