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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