Re: News: Earliest Star Chart found in Germany(@1400BC)

--- In cybalist@..., x99lynx@... wrote:

> This may be of interest to list members. Note that bronze swords

also found

> at the site were made with a technique "unique to Mycenaean and

Anatolian

> swords," suggesting early contact and influence from the Aegean.

One would

> wonder what language was being spoken in eastern Germany at this

point in

> time.
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> First Concrete Representation of Stars Found in Germany
> ------------------------------------------
> www.itechnology.co.za
> September 25 2002 at 07:44PM
>
> Nebra, Germany - Archaeologists offered a first glimpse on

Wednesday of a

> lost culture's holy site atop a German peak, and confirmed it as

the source

> of the world's oldest map of the heavens.
>
> The exact location has been kept secret for weeks, amid fears that
> treasure-seekers would move in and disturb Bronze Age remains.
>
> The site is atop the Mittelberg, a 252m hill in the Ziegelroda

Forest, 180km

> south-west of Berlin.
>
> Adding a spooky touch is the discovery that, seen from the

Mittelberg, the sun

> sets every June 22 behind the Brocken, the highest mountain in

northern

> Germany. The Brocken is in a direct line of sight on a clear day,

85km to the

> north-west.
>
> 'The oldest concrete representation of the stars in the world'The

Brocken is

> fabled in northern European mythology as the place where witches

gather for a

> coven every April 30.
>
> Scientists are still scratching their heads at the full meaning of

a 32cm

> bronze-and-gold disc found by treasure hunters on the Mittelberg in

1999. The

> map on its face shows the Brocken as well as 32 stars including the

Pleiades.

>
> Experts in pre-history can only guess at the identity of the people

who made

> the "Nebra Disc" 3600 years ago.
>
> "This disc, with the oldest concrete representation of the stars in

the

> world, was placed in a pit in the middle of a ringwall during the

early

> Bronze Age," Harald Meller, the chied archaeologist in the state of
> Saxony-Anhalt, said on Wednesday.
>
> "We still don't know if it was a princely grave or a treasure store

for holy

> objects."
>
> On Wednesday reporters were shown a clearing where the

archaeological dig had

> gone down about half a metre into the soil, leaving what appeared

to be loose

> stone walls standing. The site was once surrounded by wooden

palisades and a

> complex of defensive ditches.
>
> Wolfhard Schlosser, an expert in ancient astronomy at the

University of the

> Ruhr, added, "The ringwall was built in such a way that the sun

seemed to

> disappear every equinox behind the Brocken."
>
> Experts believe the map and site formed an observatory, which was

used to set

> the calendar for planting and harvesting crops.
>
> The nearby forest contains 1000 barrows or princely graves from the

period,

> but little else is known about the lost people, who are not

mentioned in

> ancient Greek or other Mediterranean sources. [1000 princely

graves!!! They

> sure had a lot of princes!!! - Steve]
>
> Meller said two bronze swords found at the site had been made with

a

> technique unique to Mycenaean and Anatolian swords, and had a

similar shape

> to arms found in modern Romania and Hungary.....

To repeat myself in

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/15847

look at

http://www.archlsa.de/sterne/kulturgeschichte.htm

Torsten