A 4,300-year-old silver goblet unearthed in the West Bank is engraved the earliest known depiction of the universe’s creation — a scene strikingly similar to the Book of Genesis, a new study revealed .

The three-inch-tall silver cup — known as the Ain Samiya goblet — is etched with mythological carvings of snakes, chimeras, gods, celestial symbols and a mysterious “boat of light,” imagery researches believe shows the universe shifting from pre-creation chaos to newly forged cosmic order.

The study, published Thursday in the peer-reviewed Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society “Ex Oriente Lux,” argues the goblet holds the oldest known visual record of the cosmos being born — predating the stone-inscribed Babylonian “Enuma Elish” by more than 1,000 years.

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