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Sky s the limit: how Bronze Age people travelled and traded much further afield than commonly thought

Nebra Sky Disc © State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt, Juraj Lipták Buried in the heart of Europe 3,600 years ago, the Nebra Sky Disc is an archaeological find unlike any other. It was excavated illegally in 1999 by two metal detectorists who at first thought they had stumbled on a bucket lid. The State Museum of Prehistory in Halle, Germany, acquired the artefact following a Swiss police sting operation in a Basel hotel in 2002. The Nebra Sky Disc is now indisputably the jewel of the museum’s collection. Crafted in bronze and gold, it is the oldest surviving representation of the cosmos, and its discovery has unlocked the doors for archaeological research into a prehistoric realm that can be described as the first European state. That Bronze Age civilisation, known as the Únětice culture, survived for centuries before vanishing around 1600BC and slipping away from human memory.

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Archaeologists Are Caught Up in an Intense Fight Over Just How Important the Mysterious Nebra Sky Disk Really Is

Two published reports by competing teams of scholars have reignited a long-standing debate. January 20, 2021 The controversial Nebra Sky Disk and some of the Bronze Age artifacts with which it was found. Photo courtesy of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle, Germany. It’s an enchanting object, made of copper and bronze, an ancient view of the cosmos but how ancient, exactly, is what’s fueling an increasingly contentious debate. Is the Nebra Sky Disk an unprecedented Bronze Age treasure forged some 3,600 years ago? Or a less-remarkable Iron Age object made 1,000 years later? In September, Rupert Gebhard, director of the Munich’s Bavarian State Archaeological Collection, and Rüdiger Krause, an early European history professor at Goethe University in Frankfurt, published a paper in the German journal Archäologische Informationen arguing that the artifact which features images of the sun, the moon, and the Pleiades star cluster is not the remarkable earliest-know

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