Bronze Age slab found in France is oldest 3D map in Europe
A freshly unearthed Bronze-Age stone may be the oldest three-dimensional map in Europe, researchers say.
The 2m by 1.5m slab (5ft by 6.5ft), first uncovered in 1900, was found again in a cellar in a castle in France in 2014.
Archaeologists who studied patterns engraved on the 4,000-year-old stone say they believe the markings are a map of an area in western Brittany.
They say this makes the slab the oldest 3D map of a known area in Europe.
The piece of rock, known as the Saint-Bélec Slab, is believed to date from the early Bronze Age, between 1900 BC and 1650 BC. [Continue reading…]