18-10-2021 11:18 via feedproxy.google.com

The world’s oldest star map is coming to the British Museum

Made some 3,600 years ago, the world’s oldest known map of the night sky is coming to London to go on display in the British Museum early next year.
The Nebra Sky Disc is a 12-inch bronze disc that was discovered in East Germany in 1999 and features a blue-green patina with inlaid gold symbols thought to represent the sun, moon, stars, the solstices and the constellation of the Pleiades.
The disc is normally on display at the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle, but will leave Germany for
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