The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

In Amiens, the splendors of prehistory are offered to the public

2024-03-23T00:07:09.568Z

Highlights: In Amiens, the splendors of prehistory are offered to the public. For seven months, the Musée de Picardie will display a series of images of a woman. The woman is thought to be one of the first humans to live on the continent, around 27,000 years ago. Her body is covered in hair, and her breasts are sagging, but she is otherwise in good condition. The images are part of a larger exhibition, which will run until the end of the year.


REPORT - A collection of statuettes of female forms unique in the world is presented to visitors in an exhibition at the Musée de Picardie.


Special envoy to Amiens

She's a funny lady who invaded the streets of Amiens.

A 27,000 year old Venus that reveals itself from every angle.

Her stomach, a little round, hangs.

Her breasts are also sagging and her butt is plump.

Wearing a sort of hat that hides her face, she is on full display almost everywhere in the Picardy capital.

Carved from chalk, this sculpture actually measures only 4 cm.

For seven months, it will be exhibited at the Musée de Picardie.

It must be recognized that the setting that has been created for it is worthy of the character, with a temporary exhibition dedicated to prehistory, more precisely in the Somme (exhibition of which

Le Figaro

is a partner).

It takes us back more than 650,000 years, in the footsteps of

Homo heidelbergensis

, a distant cousin, who was one of the first to populate the continent, before the Neanderthals arrived.

Over the millennia, climatic variations, human populations have been able to find in the…

This article is reserved for subscribers.

You have 85% left to discover.

Flash sale

€4.49/month for 12 months

I ENJOY IT

Already subscribed?

Log in

Source: lefigaro

All tech articles on 2024-03-23

You may like

Trends 24h

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.