[blam]

I think I have a picture of the "Sky Disk" somewhere. I'll see if I can find it.

[blam]

Nebra Sky Disk

[Cicero]

this is the first accurate picture of the cosmos in human history

It's a very interesting find indeed, but I find this remark very silly. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to look up at the sky and notice that there is a sun, a moon, and the stars, or to depict them as stylized images.

This doesn't disprove that the Bronze Age tribes in Germany did astronomy, in the sense of mathematical calculations, but it doesn't prove it, either.

Presumably, some degree of astronomical calculation is necessary for any society that needs to know when to plant crops. But the Sumerian astronomers were well beyond anything that can be proven from this object.

[pabianice]

More than coincidence?

[metesky]

"Where the heck did I put that old sky disk?" - Homer

[FreetheSouth!]

Thanks as always for the great post.

[per loin]

This hat?

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Those pilfering Huns did a whole lot of sacking down Rome way, could have been a trophy from one of their raids.

But I do know the Huns were well advanced beyond certain Freepers who lurk here abouts. No tin foil hats for them Huns, they had gold ones. (:>)

[Petronski]

[Consort]

Were'nt the Nazis were into mysticism? Maybe it was made in the 1930s using 35,000 year-old bronze. And maybe not.

[SunkenCiv]

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