Did you know that some zodiac signs can require a little imagination to see? Yes, Leo looks a little like a lion and Orino a little like a hunter, but then you see Pegasus as a flying horse. , or drift into a realm of powerful imagination where you can see the telescopium as a telescope. You can’t really see it if you squint or tilt your head. I discovered the same problem when I looked at images of his two stone disks recently discovered at the entrance to an ancient fort in Italy. The team that studied the stone matched the subtle markings carved into the stone with the positions of 28 bright stars in the sky. I had to take a look, but I think they’re probably right.
The two stones were excavated at the Lupine Piccolo protohistoric (transitional period between prehistoric and earliest recorded history) hill fort in northeastern Italy. There were chisel marks throughout the stone, suggesting that these may form patterns representing bright stars in the night sky.
The marks are thought to be carved into stone, and given that many human cultures seem to recognize the same popular patterns in stars, there is a good chance they can be identified. It seemed to me. The team employed statistical analysis on known astronomical asterisms, and the results showed little error.
There are 29 marks on the stone in total, and Paolo Molaro and Federico Bernardini’s paper analyzed exactly which stars they correspond to. Nine of them coincided with the tail of Scorpius, five represented Orion, which includes the belt stars Betelgeuse and Rigel, and the other nine appeared to be correlated with the Pleiades star cluster. There were five more markings on the back of the disk that were thought to represent the constellation Cassiopeia, but there was one mark that could not be explained. This mark has actually been recorded as appearing to represent all the bright stars in each constellation (except for Bellatrix and Saif, which may have been eroded), lending credibility to this discovery.
However, the mark slightly north of the constellation Orion has not yet been identified, and perhaps it represented a nova or supernova not recorded anywhere else. This mark is close to the physical binary pair Mu Orionis, but also close to the position of Epsilon Sagittarius. However, because of this inaccuracy, I have to believe in the possibility of a nova/supernova, since I have read the accuracy with which it is supposed to be marked. Follow-up observations are required to test this hypothesis.
Whether the stone truly represents the sky requires further analysis. Molaro and Bernardini’s study certainly seems to point to this conclusion, but it may be too early to tell. The absence of some prominent stars and the presence of unidentified objects raise a bit of doubt, but the 28 mark coincides with the position of the 28 stars must be more than just a coincidence. The stone imprints are thought to have been made between 1800 BC and 400 BC, and if they are indeed mapped to stars, they could be the oldest sky ever discovered. It must be one of the figures.
Source: Possibility of stellar asterism carved in primitive stone