Tuesday, February 19, 2013

First recorded human portrait found carved on woolly mammoth tusk

[Catholic Online]  The earliest known portrait of a human is carved upon a woolly mammoth tusk of 26,000 years ago. The amazing find will go on display shortly at the British Museum. Smaller than the average thumb, the portrait was created in the middle of the last Ice Age, in a valley in what is now Moravia in the Czech Republic, using stone tools.