This story annoys me. Two amateur treasure hunters came across an important archaeolgical find in the hills of Germany, a circular disc "depicting the heavens with sun, moon and stars . . . at least 3,600 years old."

It was eventually sold for enough money to "buy a stereo and some beers," then hawked on the international antiquities black market.

The context of this piece has been forever destroyed. We'll likely never know where it came from, or who the people who produced it were.

It's a significant find, because it places astonomical knowledge far earlier in Europe than originally thought. Yet without the context, this knowledge is utterly useless.