The most valuable among their find was the disk, and the robbers knew it.
The disk is 30 cm in diameter and weighs 2.2 kg.
About forty holes are punched all around the perimeter of the disk.
Each of the symbols on the disk are part of a complex European wide belief system.
The sun is worshipped as the harbinger of life all across Europe.
The moon was used as a symbol to mark the passage of time.
The Pleiades was used as an agricultural marker by farmers of ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and Ancient Greece.
It was such an extraordinary piece that it was initially believed it to be a forgery.
The disk was prepared in four stages.Photo credit
Ancient scholars have been mapping the stars for thousands of years.
But the disk was found in the dark heart of Northern Europe which had a reputation of savagery.
Here there were no great cities, no early forms of writing, no signs of philosophy.
Instead, there are crude lumps of rocks arranged in mystifying monuments whose true purpose has not survived.
Everything that archeologists had found here including swords, spears and axes indicate a primitive society.
They were able to conceive of their world, they were able to represent it.
The Nebra sky disk together with the objects found along with it.Photo credit
Sources:BBC/Wikipedia/Ancient Origins
