This 42,000-Year-Old Graphite Carving May Be The Oldest Phallic Art Ever Discovered
The piece of graphite, likely once used as a pendant, was discovered in Mongolia and predates any other known artistic depiction of a phallus. Solange Rigaud et al . This small objet d’art of black lead may be the oldest - known phallic fine art ever find . At first glance , this chunk of graphite found among Mongolia ’s Khangai Mountains does n’t front like much . But archaeologists conceive that the 1....