Nebra Sky Disc

In Halle, near Leipzig, for the weekend.  The choir is involved in a celebration of Handel's birthday (23rd February, 1685), a number of choirs, mostly German and Irish, join together to give a performance of the Messiah.  

There is an excellent aercheological museum in Halle and their most famous exhibit is today's blip, the Nebra Sky Disc. It is about 3800-3600 years old (early Bronze Age) and  depicts the Sun and the Moon, the cluster of seven stars between them most probably represents the Pleiades. It was found near Nebra, in Germany and is described  as the oldest concrete depiction of astronomical phenomena from anywhere in the world.

The extra is a display of the bones of a "forest elephant", 120,000 years old.