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Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combine

the two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, incl

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uding ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bul

l, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient arti

sans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combine

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The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels.A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combine the two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictio

ns have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bul

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l, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscuri

ty at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this h

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ypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the night

sky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-d

og creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, incl

uding ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

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Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this h

ypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combine

the two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient arti

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sans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels.A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combine the two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscuri

ty at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the night

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sky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient arti

sans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-d

og creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictio

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ns have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) wa

s pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this h

ypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

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Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictio

ns have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels.A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combine the two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

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Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscuri

ty at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent con

stellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combine

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the two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displays

the common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, incl

uding ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the night

sky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

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The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combine

the two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-d

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og creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels.A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combine the two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent con

stellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictio

ns have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displays

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the common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient arti

sans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-d

og creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, incl

uding ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

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sans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictio

ns have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels.A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combine the two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

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The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscuri

ty at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent con

stellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bul

l, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

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The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) wa

s pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displays

the common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscuri

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ty at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictio

ns have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, incl

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uding ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels.A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combine the two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bul

l, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) wa

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s pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-d

og creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, incl

uding ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the night

sky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

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The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this h

ypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combine

the two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-d

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og creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscuri

ty at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels.A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combine the two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this h

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ypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent con

stellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bul

l, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

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Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this h

ypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.

Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) wa

s pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent con

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stellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictions have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical depictio

ns have gone unnoticed in plain sightjust as the cup itself languished in obscurity at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece.Astronomical inscriptions have turned up in all sorts of unexpected places, including ancient drinking vessels. A 2,600-year-old skyphos (double-handled cup) was pulled from a ditch at the Halai acropolis outside Thebes and seems to combinethe two traditional Greek pastimes of stargazing and drinking.

The wine cup depicts a seemingly random zoological mishmash. On it, we see a bull, a snake, a large feral cat (possibly a lion or panther), a scorpion, a hare-dog creature, and most unexpectedly, a dolphin. At first glance, the cup displaysthe common motif of a hunting scene. However, that blasted dolphin voids this hypothesis.

Instead, University of Missouri researchers posit that the animals represent constellations. The relative positions are inaccurate but only because ancient artisans organized the constellations by season and not their placement in the nightsky.

The discovery opens up the exciting possibility that other astronomical