They discover a mysterious stone disc that is the first star chart ever created by mankind

This rock could hide an ancient celestial object, which may have disappeared in our time.

Humans are curious by nature and have been trying to understand the key to our reality for centuries. We can reach the planets and celestial objects in the solar system, and marvel at certain types of stars in the universe, such as powerful kilonovae. However, now it seems we have found out The oldest star chart in history.

A stone disc that saw the stars

Paolo Molaro and Federico Bernardini were able to check how Two stone discs found nearby Rubinpiccolo FortLocated in Italy Ancient star chart Not discovered by humans.

Talking about discs They are about 50 centimeters in diameter and 30 centimeters deep. He First of all They are rarely modified, so it is believed to be representative the sunMeanwhile he Second If you have Various works In their meaning, it was possible to identify.

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Astronomer Paolo MolaroOne of the teachers The study was published in the scientific journal Astronomische Nachrichtenindicating that it was contacted Archaeologist a few years ago Federico Bernardini in connection with Discovery of the constellation Scorpius A Stone Recovered in the Friuli-Venezia region.

And this is only the beginning And then the findings Because in that rock, they are also identified OrionThe Pleiades Already Cassiopeia. That is, of all the points located on the stone, only one remains unexplained.

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The points They are found on both sides of the rock and appear as such Engraved by the same person, given the orientation of the tips. It seems that it is through an app hammer and A Chisel A similar tool was found near this area, as the metal was engraved with symbols on the above disk. However, What happens with the number 29 symbol?

It does not seem to be the workman's fault that it is stone, but rather resembles what it is called. A 'failed supernova'. Then we will face one of them Unstable celestial objects, is visible only for a limited time and then disappears from the sky. It seems that The disks are coming From the intervening time 1800 BC and 400 BC135 BC