Oldest known sculpture of human form found

ARCHAEOLOGISTS unveiled what they believe is the oldest known sculpture of the human form – a tiny figurine of a woman carved from a mammoth’s tusk at least 35,000 years ago.

The ivory carving found in six fragments in Germany’s Hohle Fels cave depicts a woman with a swollen belly, wide-set thighs and large, protruding breasts.

“It’s very sexually charged,” said University of Tuebingen archaeologist Nicholas Conard, whose team discovered the figure last September.