Mal'ta Venus

Mal'ta Venus
The Mal'ta Venus

The Mal'ta Venus is a palaeolithic figurine of a woman, discovered in a cave at Mal'ta, at the Angara River, near Lake Baikal in Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia, Russia. The figurine is about 23,000 years old. It was carved from mammoth ivory. As is typical for the so-called Venus figurines, some of the sexual features, such as breasts and buttocks, are emphasized. It is on display at the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.

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