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Limits RegistryThe Nebra sky disc, a bronze disc about 32 cm across inlaid with gold symbols for the Sun or full Moon, a crescent Moon, and stars including the Pleiades, was buried around 1600 BCE in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Illegally excavated in 1999 and recovered by police in 2002, it was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2013 as the oldest known concrete depiction of the cosmos.
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The Nebra sky disc, a bronze disc about 32 cm across inlaid with gold symbols for the Sun or full Moon, a crescent Moon, and stars including the Pleiades, was buried around 1600 BCE in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Illegally excavated in 1999 and recovered by police in 2002, it was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2013 as the oldest known concrete depiction of the cosmos.
The approximate age of the oldest known physical object that concretely depicts the sky with astronomical features.
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Limits Registry. LR-OLDEST-CONCRETE-DEPICTION-OF-COSMOS. Oldest known concrete depiction of the cosmos. 2026.