In what has become a case of Stone Age pornography, Facebook recently removed a post by a self-proclaimed "artivist" featuring a 30,000-year-old nude statue known as the Venus of Willendorf, which ...

An image of the Venus of Willendorf (ca 28,000–25,000 BCE), the iconic Stone Age sculpture of a female figure, is apparently too provocative to appear on a personal Facebook page.

Known as Venus of Willendorf, the 4.3-inch-tall statuette—considered one of the oldest-known examples of figurative sculpture—was found in 1908 on the banks of the Danube River in Austria ...

A 30,000 year-old sculpture portraying a nude woman has been deemed “pornographic” by Facebook. The famous artwork, known as the Venus of Willendorf, belongs to the Naturhistorisches Museum ...

Facebook apologized on Thursday for mistakenly censoring an image of the prehistoric nude sculpture Venus of Willendorf. The statuette, currently housed in the Natural History Museum of Vienna, is ...

The Venus of Willendorf, estimated at between 25,000 to 30,000 years old, has long been a source of contemporary mystery and intrigue, and for good reason — little was known about its origins ...

Mystery solved about the origin of the 30,000-year-old Venus of Willendorf New research method shows that the material likely comes from northern Italy Date: February 28, 2022 Source: University ...

The Venus of Willendorf, from the collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria. Photo by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International ...

In “Venus of Willendorf,” what begins as a mere description of the Paleolithic figurine —created more than 20,000 years ago—morphs into a prayer of reverence.