Highlights of the show in the British Museum in London are Seahenge, a circle of wooden posts from the Norfolk coast, and the Nebra Sky Disk from Saxony-Anhalt in Germany
The 2.7-ton block from the Seravezza quarries had microcracks and “impurities“ so that even the chisels “sparked“
The blue of lapis lazuli became water or sky, striations in lined jasper represented the sea’s undulating waves
This time there is only a symbolic reference to the history and culture of the country through the neolithic “yu bi“ discs
Max-Planck researchers from Germany have dated the artworks with a non-destructive analysis of the “rock varnish“
Scientists used high-resolution satellite images to bettern understand the monuments built from the 3rd to the 6th century AD
Researchers have re-dated Viking-age commerce connections with regions in North Atlantic Norway, Frankish Western Europe and even the Middle East
In the stone world between Chile and Argentina there is a special memorial place
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