Michelangelo's 'The Flood' seems to depict a woman with breast cancer
30 October 2024
The Renaissance artist Michelangelo had carried out human dissections, which may have led him to include women with breast cancer in some of his pieces
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Mysterious symbols in cave paintings may be earliest form of writing
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Stone Age people in Europe appear to have recorded the reproductive habits of animals with markings on cave paintings, hinting at the early origins of writing
