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Art Historian: To modern audiences, this 5000-year-old stone sculpture may appear...

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Art Historian: To modern audiences, this 5000-year-old stone sculpture may appear grotesque, even disturbing, but we must always bear in mind that ancient cultures had very different aesthetic sensibilities; to its contemporaries, this object was likely regarded as beautiful.


Stone-Carver From 3000 BC: I’m gonna make this thing creepy as hell.


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Published on February 23, 2018 12:45
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