Human beings have always been toolmakers. Chisels and scrapers fashioned from fractured stones are associated with our hominid ancestors going back a million years or more. But a funny thing happened ...
Sometimes the most fascinating discoveries hide in the most unlikely places — even in the back of a dusty old drawer. From strange tools to puzzling little trinkets, people often stumble upon objects ...
"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 ...