Significant cultural key find!!!!!

[MIKE BURN]

The city Halle/Germany is in possession of one of the most significant key finds of early European cultural and intellectual history. It is a bronze disc with gold foil ornaments of ca. 30 cm diameter and a weight of ca. 2 kg.



The disc was discovered near Sangerhausen by local looters in the late 1990s together with a number of other bronze objects – two swords with gold foil ornaments, two axes, one chisel and fragments of arm spirals. Evidence of the original situation is scarce, the context was destroyed during the illegal excavation. The treasure was possibly found lying in a stone cist near an enclosure.







The find is dated to the Early Bronze Age and about 3,600 years old. The gold foil ornaments are arranged to create a picture of the firmament.



The stars, accumulations of stars, the sun or moon, and the crescent moon were purposely grouped to form a specific arrangement. Here mythological ideas were apparently connected with specific constellations of stars, which were based on exact astronomical measurements and observations. The bronze disc consequently shows the oldest cosmological picture known so far. It is older than the Egyptian pictures of the firmament that are known from Pharaonic graves.



The disc of stars will provide fundamental insights into early European intellectual history. The well-known construction of cult monuments along astronomical structures, like Stonehenge, and the Later Bronze Age iconography – the sun ship, sun chariot, and other symbols for the stars and the moon – now gain further significance.













THE STARSHIP STATION

[bbchris]

3,600 years old?? bizarre! And it's in such good shape....

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