The oldest known image of the cosmos is a Bronze Age disc of bronze and gold, dug from a German hilltop by looters and recovered three years later in a Swiss police sting

Buried around 1600 BC, looted in 1999 and seized in a Basel sting in 2002, the Nebra sky disc carries what one research team calls the earliest concrete picture of the night sky. How firmly the bronze can prove that is still argued. The post The oldest known image of the cosmos is a Bronze Age disc of bronze and gold, dug from a German hilltop by looters and recovered three years later in a Swiss police sting appeared first on Space Daily .