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TIL that the Nebra Sky Disc, a 3,600-year-old bronze artifact discovered in Germany, is the world's oldest known physical depiction of the cosmos with gold symbols for the sun, moon, and stars, including the Pleiades. The disc encodes accurate, useful celestial observation in a portable object.

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