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A 4,000-Year-Old Silver Goblet May Preserve One of Humanity’s Earliest Visions of the Cosmos
A small silver cup, barely taller than a matchbox, is reshaping how archaeologists think about the origins of cosmic thought. Known as the ʿAin Samiya Goblet, the vessel dates to the Intermediate Bronze Age (ca. 2650–1950 BCE) and carries an unusually complex symbolic program—one that may predate written creation myths by centuries. An Object That…