"We uncovered, like, a lost Picasso masterpiece."

For decades, the odd, little sculpture with the sort-of inquisitive looking eyeball carved out over what could be nostrils was just sitting on a shelf at the University of South Florida.

Art historian and archaeologist Kamila Oles spotted it while working on another project in the USF library with Director of Special Collections Matt Knight. What is that, she asked.

That was something he’d been wondering for years, he told her.

So Oles started digging.

Read more at the Tampa Bay Times.