The overgrown jungle of Copán is the backdrop for a formidable stone statue erected in the early eighth century ... figure and a blood-letter (an instrument that allowed one to draw one’s own blood ...

With the miraculous exception of the Shigir Idol, no Stone Age wood carvings ... Some doubters even suggested that the statue was a forgery. Image A modern drawing of the Shigir Idol with scale ...

A side-profile of the Shigir Idol’s main head. Old drawings of the statue dating from 1914 were ... These are humanity’s earliest known monumental stone ruins, and date from about the same ...

At 12,500 years old, the Shigir Idol is the world's oldest wooden art ... as well as its only surviving Stone Age wooden artifact. Thanks to new research, scientists now suspect it is even ...

A new analysis of a mysterious 16-foot statue known as ... closest to the Shigir Idol in terms of location, style, and age are the anthropomorphic, 20-foot-tall stone structures in Göbekli ...

Unlike most sculptors who are born into the stone and chisel family, a passion for painting and drawing had drawn him ... In one of Kiran’s statues you can see a temple priest from one side ...

Hundreds of Hindus in Nepal are flocking to see a statue of a deity which is said to be "sweating ... as Nepal's monarch are numbered "I saw the right side of the black stone idol had become wet ...