• Scholars noted that the Shigir Idol's decoration was similar to that of the oldest known monumental stone ruins, at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey.[3].
  • Named after a peat bog in Russia from where it was found, Shigir Idol is considered to have been created around 12,500 years ago, by latest estimates.
  • Shigir Idol, the world's oldest wooden statue.
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  • Unearthed in 1890 in the Shigir peat bog on the eastern slopes of the Middle Urals, the discovery of the Idol was a historic moment.
  • This date makes the Shigir Idol more than double the age of the Great Pyramid of Egypt, which was built in about 2550 B.C.
  • What are the mysterious markings on the Shigir Idol? The enigmatic wooden sculpture is said to be twice as old as Stonehenge and the Pyramids.
  • The Shigir Idol is considered to be one of the most important and mysterious pieces of pre-historic art from ancient Europe.
  • As mysterious as the huge stone figures of Easter Island, the Shigir Idol, as it is called, is a landscape of uneasy spirits that baffles the modern onlooker.
  • Shigir Idol is a 2.8 meters tall larch wooden sculpture by an unknown artist from the Mesolithic period.
  • Terberger saw the so-called Shigir idol for the first time at the museum — a three-and-a-half meter-tall totem pole with a carved face.