Apparently, a curvy Venus was too much for Facebook to handle. In what has become a case of Stone Age pornography, Facebook recently removed a post by a self-proclaimed "artivist" featuring a ...

An Italian woman's post featuring the 30,000-year-old artifact was removed late last year; last month, the museum that houses it called out the social network. The Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, ...

The Venus of Willendorf, estimated at between 25,000 to 30,000 years old, has long been a source of contemporary mystery and intrigue, and for good reason — little was known about its origins and ...

In 1908, archaeologists digging on the banks of the Danube near the Austrian village of Willendorf in der Wachau stumbled upon a striking object: a 4.3-inch statuette of a faceless woman with a ...

Europe’s prehistoric Venus figurines, dating from the Upper Paleolithic, are one of the world’s oldest art forms. With their voluptuous female figures carved from stone, ivory, horn, or clay, the ...

VIENNA: The prehistoric "Venus of Willendorf" figurine, considered a masterpiece of the paleolithic era, has been censored by Facebook, drawing an indignant response Wednesday from the Natural History ...

Plump and 25,000 years old, the Venus of Willendorf remains a mystery even after 100 years in the limelight. The small ochre-coloured figurine from the Paleolithic period takes her name from the ...

Cases of art censorship on Facebook continue to surface. The latest work deemed “pornographic” is the 30,000 year-old nude statue famously known as the Venus of Willendorf, part of the ...

In 1908 at an archeological dig site near Vienna, excavators uncovered a small stone statue depicting a woman. The statue was about four-inches tall, and it was painted a reddish color. The dig team ...