Trundholm sun chariot: Solvognen DO-6865
Artifact · Authenticated · Trundholm Mose, Zealand, Denmark (find-spot)

Trundholm sun chariot

A bronze horse pulls a gilded sun disc on wheels. Some see a calendar in its decoration.

c. 1400 BC

A bronze model of the sun's journey from 1400 BC. Were Bronze Age Europeans better astronomers than we credit?

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Photo: Nationalmuseet, John Lee, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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