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An amazing object from this week's visit to the Urgeschichtliches Museum Blaubeuren - an #IceAge masterpiece! The so-called Venus of Hohle Fels (a cave on the Swabian Jura) was carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago. The 6cm long figurine is the world’s oldest known...1/2 https://t.co/7eqXY779na

Wow! The Dark Ages are actually even visible in items hung up in the Louvre.