  The evolution of strongly interacting matter during the cosmological
confinement transition is reviewed. Despite of many proposed relics no specific
signal from the rearrangement of quarks and gluons into hadrons has been
identified by observations. In contrast to this, several observables in
heavy-ion collisions at CERN-SPS energies point to the creation of a matter
state near or slightly above deconfinement. We focus here on the analysis of
dileptons and direct photons. Similarities and differences of the Big Bang and
the Little Bang confinement dynamics are elaborated.
