LONDON: Nobody had ever heard of anything almost twice as old as the great Egyptian pyramid, but a latest analysis of the ancient artifact has found a wooden statue older than it, a media report said. The ancient artifact was first discovered more than a century ago.
In a Daily Mail report, a source at Sverdlovsk Regional History Museum was quoted saying that the findings are amazing.
German scientists analyzed the statue known as Shigir Idol, which was originally dug out of a peat bog in the Ural Mountains in Russia in 1890. The analysis dated it to be 11,000 years old. This meant that the idol is twice as old as the Egyptian pyramids, which dates back 4,614 years. They conducted the research using Accelerated Mass Spectrometry.
Experts said that the artifact is definitely the oldest wooden sculpture in the world. It had an ‘encrypted code’ on it which might be a message from ancient people. As per earlier dating attempts, it was made 9,500 years ago.
Furthermore, the museum has mentioned that the dating used the world’s most sophisticated technology, and was undertaken for removing doubts about the age of the idol.
The inside parts of the idol samples have shown its age as 11,000 calendar years, to the very starting of the Holocene epoch.
The source said, “Clear cuts on the tree trunk leave no doubts that the idol was made from a freshly cut tree, by stone tools”.
They said that the study has come up with an outstanding discovery. It has proved that the Big Shigir Idol is the world’s oldest wooden sculpture.
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