Astronomy:List of artifacts significant to archaeoastronomy

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  • Antikythera mechanism – A device for plotting positions of heavenly bodies. Discovered off the island of Antikythera, Greece
  • Book of Silk – Drawings of comets unearthed from Han tomb number 3 at Mawangdui Han tombs site, Changsha, China
  • Golden hats – Tall conical hats said to be embossed with symbols of astronomical significance from in Bronze Age Central Europe
  • Grooves (archaeology) - grooves found in rock in northern Europe and particularly on Gotland, Sweden
  • Nebra sky disk – A bronze disc said to date from the Bronze Age which portrays the cosmos. From Nebra, Germany
  • Trundholm sun chariot – A bronze sun disc pulled by a horse from Trundholm, Zealand, Denmark