- The Shigir Sculpture, or Shigir Idol (Russian: Шигирский идол), is the oldest known wooden sculpture. It was carved during the Mesolithic period...
- 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.
- 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.
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- 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.
- 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.
- As a rare example of hunter-gatherer artwork, the Shigir Idol introduced a new level of awareness about the creative abilities of paleo-Siberians.
- 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.
- Shigir Idol is a 2.8 meters tall larch wooden sculpture by an unknown artist from the Mesolithic period. It was discovered in ten parts in January 24, 1890 in Sverdlovsk...
- 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.
