News Summary

• 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 as a symbol of the saint s martyrdom by stoning.
• A new analysis by researchers from Dartmouth University and the University of Cambridge has concluded that the stone depicted in the so called Melun Diptych is most likely a prehistoric stone hand axe.
• These Acheulean stone hand axes have been around for more than million years and are a common archaeological find.