Artifact Gallery

Nebra sky disk, Bronze Age

Nebra sky disk. Artwork of a Bronze Age artefact known as the Nebra sky disk. Made of bronze and inlaid with gold, this object is around 30 centimetres across. It was found in Germany and is thought to date to around 1600 BC. The gold symbols are thought to represent the Sun (left), a Crescent Moon (right), and the stars (dots). The two arcs at left and right represent the angles between the rising of the Sun at the solstices, and the arc at bottom may represent the barge of the Sun, or the Milky Way. The disc is now kept in the Saxony-Anhalt State Museum for Prehistory, Germany

© JOSE ANTONIO PE'AS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Trundholm Sun Chariot

The Trundholm Sun Chariot is a late Nordic branze Age artifact discovered in Denmark that has been interpreted as a dispiction of the sun being pulled by a mare that may have relation to later Norse mythology attest in 13th century sources. The scupture has been dated 18th to 16th century BC, discovered in 1902 in the Trundholm moor in West Zealand Country on the northwest coast of the island Zealand in Denmark. The disk alone has a diameter of 25 cm

© Detlev van Ravenswaay

Painted ivory plaque from the lid of a coffer showing Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun in a garden

Painted ivory plaque from the lid of a coffer showing Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun in a garden, the lower frieze shows young women plucking mandrakes, from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, discovered in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

© Robert Harding

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