This image provided by the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows a leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: Christ in Majesty with Angels and the Angel of God Directs Saint John to Write the Book of Revelation, ca. 1180. Modern-day scientists who examined the 1,000 year-old remains of a middle-aged woman in Germany discovered lapis lazuli, a semi-precious stone, in the tartar on her teeth. From that, they concluded the woman was an artist involved in creating illuminated manuscripts, a task usually associated with monks. The find is considered the most direct evidence yet of a woman taking part in the making of high-quality illuminated manuscripts, the lavishly illustrated religious and secular texts of the Middle Ages. And it corroborates other findings that suggest female artisans were not as rare as previously thought. (Metropolitan Museum of Art via AP)
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