An 11,000-year-old carving of a man holding his penis while surrounded by leopards is the earliest known depiction of a narrative 'scene'

Dec 11 2022 by Business Insider

 
The carving shows a man holding his penis while standing between two leopards.

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The carving of is the oldest known depiction of a narrative scene. It dates back 11,000 years to the Neolithic era known as the New Stone Age. "This was a picture of the stories that formed the ideology of the people of that period," said an archaeologist

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