An albino giraffe outfitted with a GPS tracker, the discovery of what may be a lost work from Leonardo Da Vinci, and an Indonesian man who struck it rich after a multi-million-dollar meteorite crashed through the roof of his house were among the strange, unusual, and enlightening stories to cross our desk this week.

This past week saw a bevy of stories surrounding historical objects being found in surprising locations or under unexpected circumstances. In Greece, a shockingly well-preserved centuries-old bust of the god Hermes was extracted from the sewer system of Athens. Archaeologists in Florida unearthed a shipwreck that had been hidden beneath within a sand dune on a beach since the 19th century. A survey of the bottom of a lake in Lithuania revealed the remains of a medieval soldier complete with his 16th-century weaponry. And, perhaps most momentous, an art scholar in Italy announced that a newfound sketch of Jesus Christ appears to be a lost work from Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci.

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