This paper strongly suggests prehistoric hand axes were discovered and cherished more than a century earlier than was previously known. To identify the hand axe, researchers compared Fouquet’s ...

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 ...

A stone ax of the type used more than 500,000 years ago has been spotted in an unexpected place — a painting from the 15th century. Typically made from flint, “Acheulean” hand axes were oval ...

Two metal detectorists have unearthed a hoard of 15th Century coins in the Scottish Borders. Keith Young and Lisa Stephenson discovered 30 gold and silver coins in close proximity in the ...