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Scholars Thought This Ancient Silver Goblet Told One Myth for 50 Years. Is It Actually Telling Another Story?
The goblet's imagery suggests a cosmos emerging from chaos, predating Babylonian myths by 1,000 years, and may link to ancient Fertile Crescent creation stories.
- Found 55 years ago in an ancient tomb a few miles north-east of Ramallah, Palestinian West Bank, the Ain Samiya goblet's artwork appears to show the universe forming out of primordial chaos.
- After re-examining the engravings, Zangger's team found Eberhard Zangger, Daniel Sarlo, and Fabienne Haas Dantes argue the goblet predates Enkma Elia by about 1000 years and depicts world formation.
- Two engraved scenes on the tiny goblet show chaos with a chimera and monstrous snake, then humanoid gods holding a larger sun in a 'celestial boat'; the goblet stands about 8 centimetres tall.
- Some scholars pushed back as other researchers flagged flaws and proposed alternatives like solar movement or new-year rituals, leaving the creation interpretation contested.
- Suggesting wider connections, Zangger's team says motifs like a monstrous snake appear across the Fertile Crescent and note a similar 'celestial boat' at Göbekli Tepe, hinting at millennia-old myth continuity.
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The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an idea of what people living more than 4000 years ago imagined the creation of the cosmos looked like
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