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Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that A 3,000-year-old clay figure from ancient China is going viral for resembling the pig character from ‘Angry Birds’.
The remarkable find made earlier this month is said to give new insight into pre-Christian worship.
The clay artifact is now being cleaned and studied at the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments.
Archaeologists have discovered a rare clay figurine thought to represent a prehistoric water goddess in the Schweinfurt region of Germany.
Archaeologists found the clay figure in an old stream in the Schweinfurt region, on the edge of the Unkenbach plain that is now Mönchstockheim. Hallstatt-era settlers probably used this stream to draw water between the 8th and 6th centuries BC.
The Hallstatt culture derives its name from where objects characteristic of the Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age (from1100 BC) were first described in the Upper Austrian Salzkammergut region. And the term Hallstatt now refers generally to late Bronze and early Iron Age culture in central and western Europe.
The artifact is currently being studied at the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, where it is also gently cleaned and dried using airbrush water technology.
Archaeologists believe the figure used to be 10 centimeters (4 inches) taller.
Although there are no obvious visual clues as to its gender, the figure is believed to represent a woman.
The clay figurine was found in a stream where a prehistoric riverside colony had settled between the 8th and 6th centuries BC.
Archaeologists believe the 19-centimeter (7-inch) clay figure had been left in a natural niche in a rock formation as an offering.
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