Discovery takes a peek inside a famous statue’s hand to find Michelangelo’s lost weapon of war:

“Bulging with veins, the right hand is holding what remains of a terrible weapon used in antiquity until the 17th century,” art historians Sergio Risaliti and Francesco Vossilla wrote in the book L’Altro David (“The Other David”).

Called a fustibal, or staff-sling,the weapon was [...]