Europe’s prehistoric Venus figurines, dating from the Upper Paleolithic, are one of the world’s oldest art forms. With their voluptuous female figures carved from stone, ivory, horn, or clay, the ...

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In 1908, archaeologists digging on the banks of the Danube near the Austrian village of Willendorf in der Wachau stumbled upon a striking object: a 4.3-inch statuette of a faceless woman with a ...

Plump and 25,000 years old, the Venus of Willendorf remains a mystery even after 100 years in the limelight. The small ochre-coloured figurine from the Paleolithic period takes her name from the ...

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Venus figurine during scanning(Dept. of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna) Venus of Willendorf(Dept. of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna ...

Similar Stone Age figurines of women with enlarged breasts, protruding stomachs and ample hips have been found across Europe and Eurasia. Their purpose and who created them have long been ...

A pudgy little figure with wide hips and ample breasts, the Venus of Willendorf was discovered in 1908 but originally dates to the Stone Age. One of the oldest surviving art works in the world, the ...

Cases of art censorship on Facebook continue to surface. The latest work deemed “pornographic” is the 30,000 year-old nude statue famously known as the Venus of Willendorf, part of the ...

A statue of a naked fat woman is the subject of a neighbourhood tiff in a Tempe, Arizona village. New Valley residents are upset by the large stone statue, supposed to resemble a historical figurine ...