[SunkenCiv]

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The sky disc of Nebra is being shown in Basel (Basel history museum)

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[SunkenCiv]

I think we'd had a topic about this disk, but I'm just too lazy and well fed to check.

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[annie laurie]

Wow ... serendipity, Civ :)

I just got home, and on my way in I spent several minutes admiring the Pleiades; the air is especially clear tonight, and I could see 6 of them easily (which is quite unusual here).

Then I walked in, checked my pings, saw this thread, and ... lo and behold ... there are the 'sisters' again. Very cool :)

Here's another short article if you're interested; the Nebra disk is about halfway down the page:

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~tlaloc/archastro/news.html

Happy Thanksgiving :)

[Fred Nerks]

Dated around the middle of the second millenium before the present era...

that's got to be Mars, the crescent Moon and 'the horns of Venus'.

Just give me a sec, I'll go and get my WIC! (Don't have an Iliad at the moment...)