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> http://www.kahl.net/astro/astro10-02.html#nebra
>
> This is the Nebra disc, a 3,600-year old artefact discovered in

Germany last

> year, believed to depict the Milky Way, sun, moon, and perhaps the

Pleiades.

> More information can be found at:
>
> http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/mirror/243.html -
>
> Clearly, those responsible for fashioning the disk could certainly

be

> described as concerned with astronomy, although their reasons for

choosing

> to depict the Milky Way, sun, moon and Pleiades rather than any

other

> celestial bodies so far remains unexplained, as does the use to

which the

> disc was put.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jean Kelly

But consider this too:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nostratica/message/123

Torsten