This is not the first time an alien claim has been made about an ancient painting. Painted on the walls of the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Georgia is an 11th century portrait of Christ.

"In the knowledge that works of art are not exact transcripts of reality, it would be difficult, if not impossible, conclusively to identify whether a handaxe is represented in this 15th century ...

"The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb," a 15th-century masterwork by the brothers ... Take a look at this close-up of the painting pre- and post-renovation, and you'll see. (Warning: You may have ...

The Melun Diptych, however, predates Gessner’s work by more than a century. To investigate their hunch, the researchers studied the shape of the stone in the painting, concluding that it was ...

The Melun Diptych takes its name from the Northern French town in which church the painting was originally ... had social or religious functions in 15th-century France. “The hand axe–like ...

A painting by the 15th-century master Sandro Botticelli, recorded as missing since the 1980s, has been found at a home in southern Italy. The depiction of the Virgin Mary and infant Christ was ...