[equaviator]

Hey, if you believe in magic that’s up to you.

[stockpirate]

You are reading in to what the article says. It doesn’t say or imply magic, it says it was a algorithm, a math formula that predicted the cycle of the planets.

Re-read the article or read it for the first time.

[stockpirate]

here is the money quote for you. discovered that the 1,739 sun and half-moon symbols decorating the Berlin cone's surface make up a scientific code which corresponds almost exactly to the "Metonic cycle" discovered by the Greek astronomer Meton in 432bc - about 500 years after the cone was made -- which explains the relationship between moon and sun years.