The World of the Nebra Sky Disc – New Horizons (Accompanying booklets to special exhibitions at the State Museum of Prehistory Halle)

About 3,600 years after it was deposited, the Nebra hoard was found by two illegal treasure hunters in 1999. In 2002 the find was recovered for the public and presented for the first time in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle (Saale).
19 years have passed since then, in which experts from many different disciplines – from archaeology to astronomy, from archaeometry to genetics – worked together investigating the fascinating Sky Disc and its environment. Today we know where copper, tin, and gold originated, where the knowledge of the leap rule and the idea of the mythical sky barge may come from.We think that the princes of a powerful realm were behind the Disc, who maintained relationships into distant lands: as far as southern England, the Middle East, and Egypt.
You will be able to trace all this in the top-class finds of this exhibition. It is dedicated to you, the inquisitive, to whom the Sky Disc owes its popularity as a globally significant icon of Central German prehistory.