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Where was the Nebra sky disk discovered?

in Armenia

in Jordan

in Iraq

in Germany

Discovered in 1999 and dated to c. 1600 BC, the Nebra sky disk has been associated with the Bronze Age Unetice culture. It is unlike any known artistic style from the period, and was initially suspected of being a forgery, but now is widely accepted as authentic. The disk features the oldest concrete depiction of the cosmos worldwide.

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Whom were the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon built for by order of the king Nebuchadnezzar II?

for Nebuchadnezzar's wife queen Amytis

to the memory of Assyrian queen Semiramis

for daughter of Esther

it is not known

What area was called the "Magna Graecia" in antiquity?

Peloponnese with Sparta and Mycenae

Boeotia with Athens and Thebes

Thessaly with Larissa and Olympos

Southern Apennine Peninsula with Sicily

Who wrote "The Art of Poetry"?

Sidonius Apollinaris

Which Roman courtier, described as the "judge of elegance", wrote the novel Satyricon?