A proto-cuneiform tablet from the Uruk III period, created around 3200 BCE. This early form of accounting represents the threshold where prehistoric settlements became historical civilizations.
Over 2,600 years ago, the Assyrians recorded the Spring Equinox on a clay tablet that read, "On the 6th day of Nisan, the day and night were of equal length."
The ivory handle of the Predynastic Egyptian Gebel el-Arak knife, 3450 BC features a Mesopotamian-style 'Master of Animals' figure wearing Sumerian clothing and flanked by two lions.
A copper oxhide ingot recovered from the Uluburun shipwreck. The shape allowed the 60-pound ingots to be easily carried on the shoulders of Bronze Age merchants.
JUST IN: FAA clears Starship Flight 14, SpaceX's first attempt to put Starship into orbit.
The FAA issued and made effective license VOL 23-129 Rev 9.0 on Sep 26, per the signed license posted on the FAA's regulatory database.
• Window: Mon, Sep 28 at 7:15 a.m. CT (5:15 a.m. PT), 75 minutes
• Payload: 26 Starlink V3 satellites, first V3s into the constellation
• Flight: ~6 orbits at ~275 km, splashdown west of Chile
• License: adds "Initial order for licensed Starship reentry"
All 13 Starship flights so far flew suborbital. Monday is the first shot at orbit.