How recently have we understood the Universe?
<p>Cometary sightings, eclipses, and “temporary” stars <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2017-08-21/ty-article/how-ancient-babylonians-could-have-predicted-the-2017-eclipse/0000017f-e22d-d38f-a57f-e67f30ac0000" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">date back thousands of years</a>.</p>
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<p><em>This particular image contrasts the constellations of the sky as they appeared thousands of years ago with corresponding artwork carved into stone at around the same time. Evidence that ancient peoples had an advanced knowledge of astronomy can be traced back as far as 38,000 years ago from cave paintings and other archaeological evidence. </em>(<a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Decoding-European-Palaeolithic-Art%3A-Extremely-of-of-Sweatman-Coombs/f1a860b4f72c07cc6fb2fefb1fe7029b3b96c8e4" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Credit</a>: M. Sweatman & A. Coombs, Athens Journal of History, 2018)</p>
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