When it was made: Approximately 23,000 years ago Related: 'William the Hippo': The ancient Egyptian statuette ... but as with other examples of Venus figurines, it may have been created as a ...

Here's our cheat sheet for six iconic artifacts from the ancient world. Archaeologists found the figurine ... which unearthed two less-famous Venus figurines and hundreds of stone tools. The imposing ...

An archaeological dig on the island of Paros, renowned for its marble, has discovered an ancient Greek sculpture workshop.

The figurines, recovered from the ancient port city of Thonis-Heracleion in Egypt, date to between the Late and Ptolemaic periods (seventh–second centuries BC). This is the second study to ...

Venus figurines are most famous for their sexual features. These often-voluptuous carvings of female forms, made between around 30,000 and 20,000 years ago, have been interpreted as ritual ...

Before the advent of ancient DNA analysis ... They also made so-called Venus figurines that might have represented fertility. Posth and his colleagues found DNA in Gravettian remains scattered ...

a term used to describe the people who once roamed Europe and produced distinctive tools and art such as the voluptuous ‘Venus’ figurines found at ancient sites across the continent.

Five oddly expressive clay figurines, made on the edge of the Maya world about 2,400 years ago, were probably used as puppets in public rituals to commemorate mythical or real events.