List of artefacts of archaeoastronomical significance

List of artefacts of archaeoastronomical significance: * Antikythera mechanism – A device for plotting positions of heavenly bodies. Discovered off the island of Antikythera, Greece
* Book of Silk – Drawings of comets unearthed from Han tomb number 3 at Mawangdui, Changsha, China
* Golden hats – Tall conical hats said to be embossed with symbols of astornomical significance from in Bronze Age Central Europe
* Nebra skydisk – A bronze disc said to date from the Bronze Age which portrays the cosmos. From Nebra, Germany
* Trundholm sun chariot – A bronze sun disc pulled by a horse from Trundholm, Zealand, Denmark

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Archaeoastronomy — (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the study of how peoples in the past have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used phenomena in the sky and what role the sky played in their cultures. [Sinclair 2006:13] Clive Ruggles argues it… … Wikipedia
Newgrange — For the Clannad song, see Newgrange (song). Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne * UNESCO World Heritage Site … Wikipedia

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