The Old Goddesses

Featured Image: Manisa Relief, Akpinar, Turkey: app. 1,400 BCE. Considered in Classical times to be the first statue of Cybele

Rediscovered in a cave outside Schelklingen in Germany's Swabian Jura, the 35,000 - 40,000 year old Venus vom Hohlen Fels (Venus of Hohle Fels) is one of the two oldest known pieces of figurative art. (The other, the 40,000-year …