Ancient bronze disks, decorations and calendars

2012/03/12 by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Physics and Astronomy · #Ancient Egypt and Archaeology #FOS: Physical sciences #Historical Astronomy and Related Studies #Historical and Architectural Studies #Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph) #physics.pop-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1203.2512

Ancient calendars, ancient time-keeping, Bronze Age, Trundholm Sun Chariot

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Abstract

Recently, it was published that some ancient bronze disks could had been calendars, that is, that their decorations had this function. Here I am discussing an example, the disk of the Trundholm Sun Chariot, proposing a new interpretation of it, giving a calendar of 360 days. Some geometric diagrams concerning the decoration layout are also proposed.

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