Mystery "Sky Calendar", Calendars World's Oldest?
An important inscription found by archaeologists pair Reinhold Stieber and Hildegard Burri-Bayer in Germany in mid 1999. A disc-shaped plate made of bronze with pictorial patterns of sun, moon and stars were made of gold around him.
The slab consists of 32 small gold circles, one circle of large gold and 1 sickle pattern. Diameter 32 cm slab is expected to be made in the Bronze Age, approximately in 1600 BC, which is already more than 3,600 years old.
The researchers believe this slab is first sky mapping tool created by humans.
The German researchers also found these plates were used by the ancestors to calculate and estimate the change of seasons when planting.
The workings of these plates can be seen from the star cluster in the slab. Mentioned star clusters that would indicate the time spring and autumn which help farmers in the process of cultivation.
On June 2013, Lamellar The Nebra Sky eventually became one of the collections of UNESCO as one of the most important findings in the history of the 20th century. This discovery is certainly more complete variety of historical evidence that marks the journey of human life.
Although the findings valuable and important for the world, but its discoverer, Reinhold and Hildegar, remain subject to penalties associated with audacity excavating historical sites illegally and does not have a letter.
