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The sky at night, as charted in the 7th century

The world’s earliest astronomical chart is 300 years older than previously believed, according to research by the British Library.
The chart was among 40,000 ancient documents found in a cave in Dunhuang, China, a trove compared with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

It has now been conclusively dated to the 7th century AD. It was among tens of thousands of objects acquired in China by Sir Marc Aurel Stein, the British adventurer.

Read entire article at Times (UK)