The Disc of Nebra - Bronze Age Sky Disc Deciphered

[Chlodovech]

When grave robbers ransacked a Bronze Age burial in Germany, they had no idea that they had unearthed the find of a lifetime. But they knew that it was worth selling. It was a small bronze disc of exquisite design. So they contacted the archaeologist Harald Meller, offering to sell it to him for £300,000.

Meller went deep into the criminal underworld and, after a police sting, he got his disc. It depicted the sun, the moon and the stars, in particular the constellation of Pleiades. This suggested an understanding of the heavens greater than that of any other civilisation of the time. Could it possibly be real?

After exhaustive tests, the disc was declared genuine. Then a team of crack scientists pieced together what it meant. What emerged is a true marvel.

This disc, it seems, combines an advanced understanding of the stars with some of the most sophisticated religious imagery of the age. In intellectual achievement and also age, it surpasses anything yet found in Egypt or Greece. It seems that civilisation had already dawned in North Central Europe.

Exciting BBC documentary about a revolutionary, chance discovery of an enigmatic object from the German Bronze Age, giving us an opportunity to have a closer look at the complex belief systems of the local populace at the time. Must see.

[rainman]

What year was this dated? Do you all remember the article "found Europes Oldest Civilization" Somewhere around Austria and the Czech republic they found megalithic structures dating to around 4,000 B.C. which was roughly the time the Aryans came on the scene. It would appear to be a highly organized civilization predating Egypt, Sumeria etc. I wonder if this piece of work is associated with them. Of course the main reason Egypt and Sumeria left artifacts was because the desert preserved them. Most structures were made of wood, most objects would also rot. Stone Henge is from what? 8,000 B.C. or something? Something like that. Though for whateever reason none of these civilizations seemed to have been long lived or left any records.

[Hauke Haien]

The swords it has been found with can be dated to c. 1600 BCE, but the Nebra Sky Disk may have already been ancient by the time people gave it a funeral.

[Ocko]

Seems there are more and more pointers, that germanic culture is much older than the eqyptian.

Here a video:

Understanding the Nebra Sky Disc

Of course they have to mention that germanic lands were a primitive country, though they present proo to the direct opposite it.

[Schopenhauer]

I'm not surprised by this. Still, I'm glad to see this discovery made public.