Archaeologists are questioning everything we think we know about the stunning ancient artifact known as the Nebra Sky Disc. Thought to be the oldest known depiction of the cosmos, the bronze and gold ...

The Nebra Sky Disc, which is more than 3,600 years old, is a unique find of international standing and has been part of the UNESCO "Memory of the World" register since 2013. It can be considered one ...

In July 1999, under the cover of darkness, two amateur treasure hunters with metal detectors unearthed a mysterious, ancient disc on a hillside near the town of Nebra, Germany. The two men knew they’d ...

Discovered in 1999 in Germany, the 3,600-year-old Nebra Sky Disk is recognized as the oldest known depiction of cosmic phenomena. Features of the sky at night and by day are mingled, against the ...

The Nebra Sky Disc was discovered in an artifact hoard in 1999, when metal detectorists illegally excavated it from an ancient religious site on a hill near Nebra, a town in the German state of Saxony ...

It’s the world’s oldest representation of the cosmos — a bronze and golden disk hailed as an electrifying archaeological phenomenon after it was discovered in Nebra, Germany, by looters in 1999. The ...

Until now the Nebra sky disk was deemed to be from the Early Bronze Age and therefore the world's oldest depiction of the cosmos. Archaeologists from Goethe University Frankfurt and Ludwig-Maximilian ...

The Nebra sky disc, one of Germany’s most heralded prehistoric artifacts, is often considered the world’s oldest depiction of the cosmos. For a relatively small object – the gold-speckled disc is only ...