This Eerie, Human-Like Figure Is Twice As Old As Egypt's Pyramids
By Laura Geggel, Senior Writer | April 25, 2018 07:36am ET
A towering, human-like figure carved from wood and discovered in a Russian peat bog is more than twice as old as the Egyptian pyramids, scientists have found.
Gold miners discovered pieces of the elongated structure, dubbed the Shigir Idol, in 1894. But it wasn't until about 100 years later, in the late 1990s, that researchers did radiocarbon dating and found that the structure was about 9,900 years old, making it the oldest wooden monumental sculpture in the world, the researchers said.
https://www.livescience.com/62404-shigir-idol-age-and-new-face.html
