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 ...

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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Apparently, a curvy Venus was too much for Facebook to handle. In what has become a case of Stone Age pornography, Facebook recently removed a post by a self-proclaimed "artivist" featuring a ...

Scientists working with the Natural History Museum of Vienna may have uncovered the origin of the Venus of Willendorf, a 30,000-year-old figurine originally unearthed 114 years ago in Lower Austria ...

The prehistoric 'Venus of Willendorf' figurine pictured at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria. The Venus of Willendorf, a figurine estimated to have been made around 25,000 to 30,000 years ...

An image of the Venus of Willendorf (ca 28,000–25,000 BCE), the iconic Stone Age sculpture of a female figure, is apparently too provocative to appear on a personal Facebook page. In late December ...

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 ...

The almost 11 cm high figurine from Willendorf is one of the most important examples of early art in Europe. It is made of a rock called 'oolite' which is not found in or around Willendorf.