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In the morning of August 7th, 1908, when Josef Szombathy, the head of the anthropologic-prehistoric collection of the Imperial Natural History Museum in Vienna, was pacing up and down to watch what finds might be uncovered, he was the first to notice the figurine the worker Johann Veran had hit upon. Szombathy immediately realized the importance of the find. He photographed the place where the Venus had been found and retired with Josef Bayer to the tavern located below the railway line. They washed the loess off their find to examine it closely, and found that red dye came off the small female sculpture. Even today, the recesses and even parts of the Venus’ surface show remnants of the red dye with which it was covered 29,500 years ago.

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  • Title: Venus site 1908
  • Rights: (c) NHM Vienna

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