Nebra Sky Disk- Oldest Sky Disk With Celestial Objects

 Nebra Sky Disk is made up of Bronze, it is 30 centimeter wide.

Important figures on the disk-

1)Sun or Full Moon (full circle)

2)Crescent Moon (crescent circle)

3)Pleiades Constellation (group of 7 stars - small circles)

4)Other stars (other small circles)

5)2 Golden arcs (at the border of disk) -Angle between Solstices (currently 1 seems to be missing at opposite side)

6)1 Golden arc (thin shape)- Is not yet fully known


Credit-By Dbachmann, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1500795


This disk was found in Mittelberg forest in germany and the disk is though to be from period 1600 - 1560 BCE

Activity for School  kids- Draw the above disk on card board.

Fore more information visit below link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disk


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