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Nebra sky disk

LC control no.no2019079310
Descriptive conventionsrda
Uniform title headingNebra sky disk
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Variant(s)Himmelsscheibe von Nebra
Form of workAstronomy--Charts, diagrams, etc.
Beginning date-1600~
AffiliationLandesamt für Archäologische Denkmalpflege Sachsen-Anhalt--Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte
Found inDie Himmelsscheibe von Nebra, 2018: page 7, etc. (a bronze disk depicting a sky chart; 3600 years old; discovered in Nebra, Germany, in 1999; now held in Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle)
Wikipedia, May 24, 2019 English version (Nebra sky disk; a bronze disk found in a site near Nebra, Saxony-Anhalt, in Germany, and associatively dated to c. 1600 BC; it has been associated with the Bronze Age Unetice culture)
UNESCO WWW site, May 24, 2019 (under Memory of the World Register: Nebra Sky Disc: features the depiction of cosmic phenomena worldwide; ritually buried on the Mittelberg near Nebra, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)