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Believed to be about 40,000 years old, the "Lion Man" from the Swabian Alps in Germany is widely accepted as the world's oldest known statue. The discovery of the Lion Man dates to August 1939, when fragments of mammoth ivory were excavated at the back of the Stadel Cave in the Swabian Alps. When the statue was eventually reassembled in 1970, it was regarded as a standing bear or big cat—but with human characteristics—according to The Art Newspaper. It was recently thought to be 32,000 years old but with the discovery of new pieces, the statue's age has been refined using radio-carbon dating of other bones found in the strata and reveals a date of 40,000 years ago. After reading...

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