Despite more than a century and a half of speculation, these nude, faceless sculptures remain utterly enigmatic. Who made them? And what might they have been for? It's a typical evening at the ...

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

What it is: A lifelike figurine of a Neolithic woman carved out of the ivory core of a mammoth tusk. Where it was found: Inside the Grotte du Pape ("Pope's Cave") in Brassempouy, a village in ...

Venus of Willendorf: This four-inch-tall figurine is a female icon of the Ice Age and is 30,000 years old. Olmec Colossal Heads: These 17 similar heads were thought to be portraits of Olmec rulers in ...

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 ...

The discovery, which unfolded in 2008, is among the most recent of hundreds of similar finds unearthed as far back as the 19th Century: the Venus figurines. These portable sculptures are usually ...

The artifact, which measures 1.4 inches (3.5 centimeters) tall, is one of many Venus figures dating to the Upper Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age. Researchers think the figurine was once attached to ...

This is the 160-year enigma of the Venus figurines. Who made them, and why? Are they miniature "mother" goddesses, tangible embodiments of female fecundity? Or could they simply be Palaeolithic ...