Mystery in wooden statue twice as old as the Pyramids

The nearly 10,000-year-old Shigir statue in Russia is considered the oldest wooden statue in the world, twice as old as the Egyptian pyramids, and contains many unsolved mysteries.

The world's oldest wooden statue is nearly 10,000 years old. Photo: Ancient Origins

According to Ancient Origins, the Shigir wooden statue located in a museum in Russia, which is nearly 10,000 years old, is the oldest wooden statue in the world. It is 4,000 to 5,000 years older than Stonehenge in England and twice as old as the Egyptian pyramids. Some researchers believe that the geometric symbols and strange signs carved on the statue contain coded information about the Mesolithic world.

The Shigir statue was discovered in January 1890 in the Sverdlovsk region on the western edge of Siberia, Russia. It consists of many fragments lying in a 4-meter-long casing, beneath a layer of peat bog in a gold mine. It is thanks to this peat that the wooden statue has been protected from bacteria, has not rotted and has remained relatively intact after many millennia.

Russian professor Dmitry Lobanov pieced together the 2.8-meter-high statue. In 1914, Siberian archaeologist Vladimir Tolmachev carefully recorded all the fragments of the statue through sketches and calculated its original height to be 5.3 meters. A 2-meter-long section of the statue was stolen after experiencing political upheavals in Russia in the 20th century.

The Shigir wooden statue was carved using primitive stone tools on larch wood. The larch trunk is rectangular and flat, with many horizontal lines in the middle, representing ribs. According to researchers, there are seven faces represented in this statue. On the wooden surface are geometric symbols such as the letter V, fish bones, straight lines, squiggly lines, and many other abstract symbols.

Some say the face of the statue contains coded information from Mesolithic humans. This is also a way for the ancients to pass on their primitive understanding of the origin of humans and the world to future generations. Others believe the statue is an ancient map. The straight lines, wavy lines, and arrows indicate how to get to a location and the number of days the journey will take./.

According to VnExpress