Tiny Stone Holds Unparalleled Ancient Greek Art

The director of the British School at Athens tells the New York Times it's "a masterpiece of miniature art." 

The woman who discovered it had an even more profound reaction. "Looking at the image for the first time was a very moving experience, Shari Stocker says in a press release. "It's brought some people to tears." Stocker and her husband, Jack Davis, both archaeologists, discovered the Pylos Combat Agate in the tomb of the Griffin Warrior, which they uncovered in 2015 near the ancient city of Pylos in Greece. 

At first they thought the limestone-encrusted object, which the International Business Times reports was found near the right arm of the skeleton of the Griffin Warrior—buried around 1450 BC—was a simple bead. They were way off. More than a year's worth of work to remove the limestone has revealed what Davis now says is "a spectacular find."

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