National Geographic History - 01 e 02.2022
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 19 PINT-SIZE ICON One of 13 Grimaldi Venuses found at the Balzi Rossi caves in northern Italy, this ...
Found across Europe and Asia, these female figurines created during the Paleolithic period may seem crude by comparison when gaz ...
FOUND IN A CAVE The oldest known Venus figurine (opposite), carved some 35,000 years ago, was found in the cave of Hohle Fels (p ...
ICELAND AFRICA S C A N D I N A V I A E U R O P E G R E E N L AN D Renancourt Gönnersdorf Hohle Fels Petersfels Monruz Abri Patau ...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 23 A S I A Khotylevo 2 Gagarino Kostenki Avdeevo BARENTS SEA BLA CK^ SEA Europe during the last glac ...
inches tall. The “youngest” figures found to date are about 14,000 years old. Such a wide time span demonstrates that these figu ...
NO TALLER THAN 4.5 INCHES, this tiny figure made a tremendous impact on art history when discov- ered in 1908. Dubbed the Venus ...
Explanations and Controversies These statues may be small in stature, but the debate surrounding them is enormous. The function ...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 27 PHOTOS: ERICH LESSING/ALBUM THIS LIMESTONE FIGURINE WAS DISCOVERED IN 1983 at the Russian site of ...
28 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2022 died in the first year of life. In addition to high infant mortality, the fatalities of women who died ...
MODERN PORTRAIT Forensic artists used Paleolithic human remains to create a lifelike portrait of a woman who lived between 47,00 ...
30 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2022 VENUS OF HOHLE FELS One of the most recent discoveries is also the oldest known Venus. The Venus of Hoh ...
GODDESSES OF SEX AND MOTHERHOOD were an important part of many ancient pantheons: Nut and Isis in ancient Egypt; Ninhursag and I ...
32 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2022 MYSTERY WOMAN This stunning face was uncovered in Amarna by Ludwig Borchardt in 1912. It continues to c ...
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Engraved on a stela found at Amarna, Egypt, this glowing passage describes Nefertiti, the great royal wife of Amenhotep IV—bette ...
circa 1349 b.c. A few years after the death of his father, Amenhotep IV begins a radical religious shift in Egypt to the worship ...
in the Egyptian royal court of unheralded par- entage. She lived a privileged life as a child, sur- rounded by the splendor and ...
DIVINE BLESSINGS As Aten shines upon them, Pharaoh and Nefertiti play with three of their daughters. Prior to Akhenaten’s reign, ...
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