(NLDO) - The "Black Sun" appeared in 2910 BC and caused crisis for ancient civilizations.
Scientists have just unearthed more than 600 strange artifacts buried on the island of Bornholm - Denmark, a small island in the middle of the Baltic Sea. They have helped them rewrite the interesting story of the "Black Sun" that once ruled the sky of the Earth.
Based on the style of the pottery and radiocarbon dating from charcoal found nearby, the researchers concluded that the artifacts were buried in the area around 2900 BC.
Strange artifacts reveal the story of "Black Sun" - Photo: ANTIQUITY
Most of them are made of black schist - a dark, brittle sedimentary rock found on the island, while others are made of quartz and flint.
Most of the slabs are also decorated with carved motifs, including Sun and plant motifs.
Neolithic people in the area appear to have buried the stones at a key time.
After the burial of the stones, the site was also built upon and reinforced to become more solid, suggesting that the area may have been used for ritual purposes.
So Danish scientists speculate that a natural disaster or climate event that caused crop failure caused the stones to be buried here in a sacrificial ritual.
According to archaeologist Lasse Vilien Sørensen from the National Museum of Denmark - co-author of the study just published in the scientific journal Antiquity, they compared this discovery with evidence of historical climate events.
Ultimately, Dr. Sørensen and colleagues identified a catastrophic volcanic eruption in 2910 BC as the likely cause.
Like the "Black Suns" depicted in the black shale they had just excavated, the eruption released large amounts of ash into the atmosphere, forming toxic clouds that blocked out sunlight for long periods of time.
At that time, on this island and many other places in the world, agriculture was flourishing, and crops needed sunlight.
So it is almost certain that the "Black Sun" phenomenon of that period negatively affected weather and crops across the Northern Hemisphere.
"We have known for a long time that the Sun was the focal point for the early agricultural cultures that we know of in Northern Europe," explains archaeologist Rune Iversen from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark).
Therefore, they believe that the ritual involving the tablets as well as other actions were performed to "secure the Sun and growth".
Source: https://nld.com.vn/600-vat-la-tiet-lo-hien-tuong-mat-troi-den-de-doa-dia-cau-196250118063302003.htm
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