"Ancient Realm" by Australian composer Kevin Ross inspiered a romantic view of the Nebra disk.A Graduate with a double major in Composition and Theory, Kevin has worked in many genres including classical, rock and country, in Australia as well as the U.K and the U.S. He is currently focusing on a path of film music.The Nebra diskThere were initial suspicions that the disk might be an archaeological forgery.Peter Schauer of the University of Regensburg, Germany, argues that the Nebra disc is a fake. He is quoted as saying:"If you urinate on a piece of bronze and then hide it in the ground for a few weeks you can produce the same patina as on the disc." Richard Harrison, professor of European prehistory at the University of Bristol and an expert on the Beaker people allowed his initial reaction to be quoted in a BBC documentary (link below):"When I first heard about the Nebra Disc I thought it was a joke, indeed I thought it was a forgery. Because it's such an extraordinary piece that it wouldn't surprise any of us that a clever forger had cooked this up in a backroom and sold it for a lot of money." Though Harrison had not seen the skydisk when he was interviewed, it was a reasonable skepticism at that point -- especially in the light of the known scepticism of most British archaeologists towards all things archaeoastronomical -- but the disk is now widely accepted as authentic and dated to roughly 1600 BC on grounds of typological classification of the associated finds. As the item was not excavated using archaeological methods, even its claimed provenance may be made up, hence authenticating it has depended on microphotography of the corrosion crystals, which produced images that could not be reproduced by a faker.Genuine artefact or genial forgery, the Nebra disk is one of the most fascinating objects on this Planet.Still others believe the disc allows one to use the phases of the moon, not just the progress of the sun across the horizon, to keep time. In this view, the disc displays the position of the Moon against the background of stars when a lunar month must to be added in order to harmonize their timekeeping, no doubt measured in lunar-months, with the solar cycle and the seasons. The solar cycle and the lunar cycle do not correspond exactly--there are approximately 32 solar years in 33 lunar years. Curiously, there are 32 stars on the Nebra disc, plus the Moon make 33.More information on the Nebra Diskhttp://donsmaps.com/skydisc.html

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