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DEUTSCHLAND HIMMELSSCHEIBE VON NEBRA
Nebra sky disk. Artwork of a Bronze Age artefact known as the Nebra sky disk. Made of bronze and inlaid with gold, this object is around 30 centimetres across. It was found in Germany and is thought to date to around 1600 BC. The gold symbols are thought to represent the Sun (left), a Crescent Moon (right), and the stars (dots). The two arcs at left and right represent the angles between the rising of the Sun at the solstices, and the arc at bottom may represent the barge of the Sun, or the Milky Way. The disc is now kept in the Saxony-Anhalt State Museum for Prehistory, Germany. (KEYSTONE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/JOSE ANTONIO PE?)
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License
Rights Managed
Date created
20110209
Place
NEBRA DEUTSCHLAND
Credit
KEYSTONE
Source
SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY SPL
Byline
JOSE ANTONIO PE?
Size
4193 x 4193 px
File type
JPEG