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German "Stonehenge" marks oldest observatory


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This story is nor related to the Roman Empire, but so exiting news that i put it up here.

 

A vast, shadowy circle sits in a flat wheat field near Goseck, Germany. No, it is not a pattern made by tipsy graduate students. The circle represents the remains of the world's oldest observatory, dating back 7,000 years. Coupled with an etched disk recovered last year, the observatory suggests that Neolithic and Bronze Age people measured the heavens far earlier and more accurately than scientists had imagined.

 

full article at Scientific America

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