A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological site of Dolní Věstonice in the Czech Republic in the 1920s, is considered ...

is considered the oldest surviving portrait of a person anywhere in the world, at 26,000 years old. Carved with stone tools out of mammoth ivory, the tiny head measures just 1.9 inches (4.8 ...