Oldest known wooden sculpture
The Shigir Sculpture , or Shigir Idol (Russian : Шигирский идол ), is the oldest known wooden sculpture.[ 1] [ 2] It was carved during the Mesolithic period, shortly after the end of the last Ice Age , and is twice as old as Egypt's Great Pyramid .[ 3] The wood it was carved from is approximately 12,000 years old.[ 4]
It was discovered in 1890 in a Russian peat bog, and is displayed in the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore in Yekaterinburg , Russia .[ 5]
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