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A bitter archaeological feud over an ancient vision of the Cosmos
The Nebra Sky Disc, ca. 1600 B.C, bronze and gold; photo Juraj Lipták / State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt.
by Becky Ferreira
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- The disk is small just 12 inches in diameter but it has loomed large in the minds of people across millenniums. Made of bronze, the artifact was inlaid in gold with an ancient vision of the cosmos by its crafters. Over generations, it was updated with new astronomical insights, until it was buried beneath land that would become the Federal Republic of Germany thousands of years later.