Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scanning the desert landscape of southern Egypt, archaeologists kept their eyes peeled for any rocks that looked shaped, chipped ...

"The Melun Diptych" (circa 1455) by Jean Fouquet in an exhibition at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Germany. Since ancient times, people working in the fields occasionally stumbled over strange-looking ...

The object depicted was long thought to be a stone. A close-up of "The Melun Diptych", ca. 1455, Jean Fouquet. Courtesy Steven Kangas and authors. The Melun Diptych takes its name from the Northern ...

Around 1455, a medieval French painter and miniaturist named Jean Fouquet painted a small diptych with two panels, one of which depicts St. Stephen holding a strangely shaped stone—usually interpreted ...

A prehistoric Stone circle in England may have been erected some 700 years before the origin of the iconic Stonehenge monument, an archaeologist has proposed. The Castlerigg stone circle, located in ...

The woman picked up what looked like an unusual stone, but turned out to be a rare ancient relic. A flint axe from around 2500 B.C.E. was discovered by a grandmother in Poland. Photo courtesy of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This object is part of the Education ...

A famous 15th-century painting was hiding a prehistoric secret in plain sight, researchers from Dartmouth University and the University of Cambridge have recently discovered. Their study revealed that ...

Key and Clark compared the shape, color, and surface details of the stone in the painting with those of Acheulean hand axes found in northern France, where Fouquet lived and worked. They determined ...

Archaeologists surveying a desert region in Egypt found several ancient workshops filled with Stone Age artifacts, a study said and photos show. Photo from Leplongeon, Bailly and Graff (2024) Scanning ...